Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet and data analysis program, is available as a stand-alone program or as a component of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. Excel 2007 included a number of new ...

Numbers by themselves seldom convey the big picture. Excel Charts makes it easy to illustrate trends in your business, from past expenses and profit to sales forecasts based on previous sales. T*o* ...

Most business establishments readily accept business reports from Business Intelligence software, which displays them in a Funnel chart type, which is widely used for presenting sales data. Apart from ...

Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts ...

Bar charts and box plots are omnipresent in the scientific literature. They are typically used to visualize quantities associated with a set of items. Representing the data accurately, however, ...