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Bar chart

Meaning in data science & analytics, with examples

nounCore term

In data science & analytics, bar chart means: A chart that uses rectangular bars of different lengths to compare values across categories, such as sales by region or users by country.

In Turkish: çubuk grafik, sütun grafik

How it is used

The most common chart in business reports. Bars can be vertical (often called a column chart) or horizontal, stacked or grouped. Good practice is to start the value axis at zero and sort the bars.

Example sentences

  1. A horizontal bar chart works better here because the country names are long.

  2. The bar chart makes the gap look huge because the axis starts at 90.

Common collocations

  • stacked bar chart
  • horizontal bar chart
  • grouped bar chart
  • column chart
  • data visualizationThe practice of showing data as charts, graphs and maps so that people can see patterns, comparisons and changes more quickly than in a table.
  • line chartA chart that connects data points with a line to show how a value changes over time, such as monthly revenue or daily sign-ups.
  • histogramA chart that shows the distribution of one numeric variable by dividing its range into intervals, called bins, and drawing a bar for how many values fall in each.
  • scatter plotA chart that shows the relationship between two numeric variables by drawing one dot for each observation, with one variable on each axis.

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