This post offers reasons for using logarithmic scales, also called log scales, on charts and graphs. It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base ...

Graphs that are not drawn to scale mislead the reader. This post shows another example of a graph where the visual representation of the numbers is not proportional to the numbers themselves.

A logarithmic price scale is a type of scale used on a chart that depicts two equivalent price changes by the same vertical distance on the scale.

The interpretation of a stock chart can vary among different traders depending on the type of price scale used when viewing the data.

The second finding, however, is the key weakness of a log chart: people have a hard time interpreting the scale. In the log chart, the final dot looks like it’s at around 60-70,000 deaths or so.

Bending the Curve Logarithmic scales can emphasize the rate of change in a way that linear scales do not. Italy seems to be slowing the coronavirus infection rate, while the number of cases in the ...

Graphtyper realigns short-read sequence data to a pangenome, a variation-aware graph structure that encodes sequence variation within a population by representing possible haplotypes as graph paths.