A chart is a graphical representation of data that helps your audience to understand your information easily; charts make comparisons in your data and analyze the trends or patterns in data sets.

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 ...

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 ...

Combo boxes are a useful way of entering data into an Excel spreadsheet, combining the flexibility of a text field with the convenience of a list box. Combo boxes provide you with a list of choices ...

Visualization methods enhance our understanding of sample data and help us make comparisons across samples. Box plots are a simple but powerful graphing tool that can be used in place of histograms to ...

Treemap has nine variations, all of which show a hierarchical view of the target data and how the sections of that hierarchy compare in size to each other. The main branches of the tree are displayed ...

Figure 1: Data visualization with box plots. M.S. and J.W. conceived of the box plot tool, and M.S. developed the tool with input from all authors; J.W. implemented ...