Sailors interested in building their very own computer-controlled chart plotter using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a project created earlier this year by James Conger, which ...

Different chart types emphasize different aspects of the data. I show a simple data set and plot it three simple ways to show that each emphasizes a different message. All use bar charts. The data ...

You might think of Microsoft's Excel as your only tool to handle data and create plots. But frankly, I hate to use Excel for charts and graphs because it lacks the flexibility I need and formatting ...

One of the tools professional guides use before ever firing up a motor comes right in these pages. The tide prediction tables the St. Petersburg Times prints each week serve as a guide to water ...

If you've ever looked at a stock price chart and felt a bit overwhelmed by all the lines, bars, and colors, you're definitely not alone. Learning how to read a chart begins with understanding that ...

l“We are starting to move into the paperless way of doing things,” international Capt. Nat Iyengar observed. The old school was the reporting form, or overwater log, which accompanied the flight plan ...

A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other graphics ...