While simplicity and comprehensibility will always be the end goal of a bar chart – and for that matter, any kind of chart – this doesn’t necessarily mean that you always have to resort to ...

This Design Idea is a 1-dot bar graph display that provides a simple, compact, low-cost, and low-power alternative to the usual four-LED bar graph battery gauge [1]. It consists of a surface-mount ...

Model SEB (switchboard LED bar graph) can be used as an indicator only with no output; with V/mA or serial input as a remote display); or as an indicator/controller with outputs such as relays ...

A bar chart is useful when you want to do a quick side-by-side comparison of categorical data (e.g., countries, colors, types of software, modes of transport, marital statuses).