Suppose you have some data. You want to plot that data and turn it in with your lab report. Your instructor (me) told you to be sure and include error bars on your graph.

Let’s say that you have created a chart in Google Sheets. Apart from showing the chart only to the viewers, you want to show the percentage by which they have missed something.

Do you plot error bars when visualizing data? A new study suggests that the type of variability you choose to display can drastically change how people perceive a ...

Adding Error bars in Microsoft Excel is simple, but ensure you’ve already added a graph to your spreadsheet because this article will not be explaining how to add graphs, but rather how to add ...

To add error bars in Excel, click on your chart or graph in Excel. Click Chart Elements > Error Bars.

The meaning of error bars is often misinterpreted, as is the statistical significance of their overlap.

Most people have decades of experience looking at graphs. We see them in television reports, books, magazines, presentations at work, and on the stock market apps on our phones. On the surface ...