The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, is a powerful concept that can transform your approach to data analysis. This principle states that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes.

Microsoft Excel gives you a number of tools to build, update and manipulate graphs and charts. If you want to take the data from one chart and place it on another chart, Excel gives you two ways to ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

In Microsoft Excel 2010, a chart sits over the worksheet and provides a visual expression of the underlying data. You can use a chart in conjunction with elements on the worksheet to get a better ...

During the manufacture of a metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitor, causes of failures were recorded before and after a tube in the diffusion furnace was cleaned. This information was saved in a ...

One way to improve your spreadsheet is to present data in chart form, and Excel is a great program for doing just this.

Q: I am trying to prepare an area chart in Excel 2010 with multiple ranges of data, but no matter which sort order I use, some of the underlying data remains obscured (see below). What is the best way ...

Let us look at the steps involved in detail. Now it is copied to the clipboard. Now, right-click the chart’s data point and select Format Data Point from the menu or double-click the data point on the ...

This example illustrates methods for controlling the order of rows and columns in a comparative Pareto chart. The following statements create a data set named FAILURE7: proc format; value procfmt 1 = ...

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal produced an income calculator that allowed you to quickly type in your household income and out popped your income percentile. The problem, however, was that ...