A bar plot or bar chart, is a graph of the frequency of categorical data. It is differentiated from a histogram because in a bar plot, the data are inherently categorical.

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What kind of Diagram to visualize Results from Software Usability test?

I know how to use R but I am kind of stuck on the statistical part here: I need to visualize the results from a software usability test where the total number of clicks of each tester for every one ...
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How to plot a mekko chart in Excel?

So a question you will have from here! Q: What is Mekko? A. Its like a histogram. The bar chart can show information in two axes. Normally in a bar chart the y axis shows the variation and x shows ...
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How to visualize two bar charts with very different scales without looking redundant

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Can I pass an “at” parameter for the x-axis locations of bars, to an R barplot?

Hi in base graphics in R, I would like to overlay a bar plot on a chart which has irregularly spaced points on a curve. The bars should represent the change in these points since the previous sample. ...
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Calculating standard error and attaching an error bar on ggplot2 bar chart

Given a minimal dataset where am looking for the occurrence of a certain motif within a dataset of 500 observations. with_motif represents obervations with the specified motif and without_motif are ...
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Drawing multiple barplots on a graph in R

I would like to plot four barplots on a single graph in R. I have used the following code. Here, how can keep a legend on top of the graph, specifically the legend should be between 2 and 3 barplots. ...
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How would one visualize this data using bar charts?

I am using Google's visualization API for drawing charts that show files downloaded each day. I don't know if this is the best idea, but I am thinking of showing download counts on the Y-axis, ...
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Is it true that horizontal and vertical bar charts are in different length for human eye? [closed]

Is it true that horizontal and vertical bar charts are in different length for human eye?
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Postscript in R: How to remove a large left margin (on y axis)

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Group vs Stacked Bar Plots

What are the appropriate uses for a grouped vs a stacked bar plot?
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Stacked bar plot

I have a data-frame whose first column is the name of an item and the second column is the frequency of that item in the dataset. ...
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How to create a barplot diagram where bars are side-by-side in R

I want to create a bardiagram for these data in R (read from a CVS file): Experiment_Name MetricA MetricB Just_X 2 10 Just_X_and_Y 3 20 to have the following ...