Making Large Numbers Count: Cognitively Informed Alternatives to Log-Scale Bar Charts
From carbon emissions to national budgets, we’re frequently asked to interpret values that span from thousands to millions and billions. These wide ranges—what we call Orders of Magnitude Values (OMVs)—are cognitively demanding for the general public and hard to represent with common charts. So, how can we make sense of large numbers in order to […]
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