Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed ...

Two hundred years ago, Missouri was rocked by an earthquake so severe it made the Mississippi River flow backward and set off church bells in Boston more than 1,000 miles away. These details help ...

Odds are you haven't used logarithms since your teacher introduced them to you in high school mathematics, if you can remember back that far. But for investors who count on price charts to gauge stock ...