Not every sample of data can be meaningfully plotted on a two-dimensional graph. MATLAB, a technical analysis software suite from MathWorks, allows you to plot publication-quality, three ...

So, how do you display data for stuff with such a huge range of values? The answer is to use a semi-log plot. I'm going to explain exactly how this works.

This part of the Graph Makeover Contest was much more challenging than the redesign of the donut chart, but readers suggested a variety of ways to visualize the data in the table.