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 ...

A chart is a graphical representation of data that helps your audience understand your information more easily; charts enable comparisons within your data and help analyze trends and patterns in data ...

Excel has so many charts that the best one for the job is often easy to miss. You might instinctively reach for the familiar column chart, but that can cause more problems than it solves by obscuring ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over three of them here and talk about how they could be used with your data. Treemap has nine variations, all of which show a ...

Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...