Open AccessThe Benefits of Using Bar Charts in Company Websites
Author(s) -
Kankan Kasmana,
F. M. Adipraja
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/662/3/032003
Subject(s) - bar chart , categorical variable , chart , pie chart , bar (unit) , \bar x and r chart , graph , computer science , control chart , information retrieval , data mining , statistics , mathematics , process (computing) , geography , machine learning , theoretical computer science , control limits , programming language , meteorology
This article discusses the use of bar charts on company sites. A bar chart or bar graph is a chart or graph that presents categorical data with a rectangular bars with heights or lengths proportional to the values they represent. The purpose of this research is to discover the benefits of using the bar chart so it will becomes a consideration for institutions and companies that need informative data. With a qualitative approach, the data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the use of bar charts speeds up the user’s reading of the data presented. In addition, bar charts are an aesthetic element that facilitates and motivates users who wants to read data or information compared to text data or tables.