A date-and-cost line chart tracks a commodity's changing price over time. Economists use such diagrams to display broad market trends and predict future prices. Businesses that restock continually use ...

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 ...

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

So, you want to know how to create a scatter plot in Excel. Chances are, you probably already know what the term means, but given Microsoft Excel’s arsenal of options packed into each tab, getting ...

Microsoft Excel doesn't always provide everything you need when it generates graphs. For example, by default, your line graph doesn't included a title. However, this doesn't mean you have to go ...

Whether working with a team or alone, you need to maintain a project’s schedule. One tool that can keep you on track is a burndown chart created in Microsoft Excel. These are line charts that compare ...

This guide shows you how to make a bar graph in Excel for Microsoft Office 365 (Excel 2016 and 2019), as well as older Excel versions. A Microsoft Excel bar graph is relatively easy to create, and ...

I have three values. On the X axis I want the date and time, and on the Y axis I want my reading. My data set looks like this: Code: Date Time Reading 11/30/2011 0934 212 11/30/2011 1252 272 ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...