Here is a sample of a lesson for children covering some of the points made in this post. I used a vertical bar chart, also called a column chart, in Figure 2 to facilitate comparisons with histograms.

Box plots, also called box and whisker plots, are more useful than histograms for comparing distributions. They show more information about the data than do bar charts of a summary statistic such ...

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.