Data literacy helps you plot and present complex data in a way that’s easy to digest. Choosing the right chart is a great start.

“Imagine a pie chart that shows Visuals at 42 percent, Numbers at 36 percent, Stupid Jokes at 15 percent and Random Complaints at 7 percent. Now let’s convert that to a bar chart.” ...

You could say the U.S. equity market is really more like three interconnected markets, with a lot of retail, mutual funds and arbitrage traders mostly separated from each other – resulting in less ...

A bar chart is useful when you want to do a quick ... If the data isn't linear, the line takes the closest possible path. A ...

Pie charts show percentages as a circle ... ideally with an equal number of points on either side of the line. Pictograms are like bar charts, but they use small pictures or icons to show data ...

The key here isn’t just data as part of a whole (which can more effectively be displayed as a pie chart). It adds another important factor: Time. The X value on a stacked bar chat (usually ...

Pie charts show percentages as a circle divided ... ideally with an equal number of points on either side of the line. Pictograms are like bar charts, but they use small pictures or icons to ...