There are 17 different types of charts in Excel, so it can sometimes be difficult to choose which one to use. In this article ...

You can insert a chart in Excel by selecting your dataset, heading over to the Insert tab, and clicking the chart type you want in the Charts group of the ribbon. Then, you can customize them by ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Using examples, journalist Alberto Cairo talked about ways that data, charts and visualization are represented and interpreted. He discussed ...

The Graph Makeover Contest makes it clear that there are multiple ways to plot a data set with no one way being best. This post shows alternatives to a pair of donut charts.

When you use a Gantt chart in agile software development, for example, you can easily adjust sprint timelines or add new features as priorities shift. Gantt Charts Across Industries: Examples and ...

The representation of numbers in graphs should be proportional to the numbers themselves. Otherwise, they mislead or deceive. Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with ...

This example generates several graphs of sales data that can be accessed from a single Web page. The graphs are two bar charts of summary sales data and three pie charts that break the data down by ...

A clustered chart is excellent for making relative comparisons within categories, but makes totals more difficult to determine. Using our example of a quarterly sales graph, a clustered chart ...