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bar chart

Summary

bar chart ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,467 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • bar chart is credited with the discovery of William Playfair[2].
  • bar chart is a type of discrete data chart[3].
  • bar chart's Commons category is recorded as Bar charts[4].
  • bar chart's Unicode character is recorded as 📊[5].
  • 1786 marks the founding of bar chart[6].
  • bar chart's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bar charts[7].
  • bar chart's Commons gallery is recorded as Bar chart[8].
  • bar chart's represents is recorded as categorical variable[9].
  • bar chart's described by source is recorded as ISO 3534-1:2006(en) Statistics — Vocabulary and symbols — Part 1: General statistical terms and terms used in probability[10].
  • bar chart's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/bar-chart[11].
  • bar chart's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[12].

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Definition and Type

bar chart is a type of discrete data chart[3].

Origins

1786 marks the founding of bar chart[6].

Why It Matters

bar chart ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,467 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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