I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases ...

The article includes several bar graphs. Figure 1 shows world population over time. I looked at Figure 1 and thought to myself, “What scale is he using?” I couldn’t imagine being able to ...

On scale-free graphs wealth distributions follow a power law. However, for a fixed cost per individual, the population has significantly fewer poor and more rich (note the logarithmic scale in Fig.

They showed people the following two charts: I think they put their finger on the scale by starting the y-axis of the log chart at 0.1, but I don’t suppose many people actually noticed that.

A logarithmic price scale, also referred to as a "log scale", is a type of scale used on a chart that is plotted such that two equivalent price changes are represented by the same vertical ...

But sharp-eyed observers will note that the chart is in log scale, not linear scale. In a regular linear scale graph -- the type of scale everyone is used to seeing on a daily basis in everything ...

The data look very different when plotted on what is called a logarithmic scale. In a typical graph, values on the (vertical) y-axis are plotted linearly: 1, 2, 3, and so on, or 10, 20 ...