Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The ...

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, Vol. 81, No. 4 (July/August 2008), pp. 496-507 (12 pages) Abstract The standard approach to most allometric research is ...

Historically, risk measures have been used for single-period investments, and this has prevented their application by investors willing to reinvest their wealth for more than one period. Due to its ...

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We humans seem to be born with a number line in our head. But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic slide rule on which the ...

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 ...

I maintain that historical price charts are great for predicting the past. This is meant to sound like a joke but it isn’t. Price charts are maps and maps give people a guide to the future because ...