Unless you’re a data scientist or have another job that commonly uses data visualization, selecting the right way to represent information can feel overwhelming. Software like Excel can stuff any type ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Adrian Barnett is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Victor Oguoma is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones ...

Data is everywhere, today. We cannot imagine a world without bar graphs or pie charts anymore -- they have become integral to presenting information. From billion-dollar companies to small businesses, ...

A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.

Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items sold ...

What an outstanding group of readers I have! Both the quality and the quantity of entries to the Graph Makeover Contest were amazing. There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which ...

The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age’s lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of “graphical statistics,” aka data ...