There are a variety of ways line graphs can be used to clearly display complex information. Each axis is named by the quantity labelled on it. This might be \(x\) and \(y\), or time and temperature.

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...

Adrian Barnett is a member of the Statistical Society of ... the average person understand big data and numbers, we often use visual summaries, such as pie charts. But while non-numerate folk ...