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 ...

We all know that Excel can make some gorgeous charts and graphs, but if you are like 30 Rock's Liz Lemon and don't know your scatter plot from your triangle graph ("I don't know. It sounded real!"), ...

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 ...

This example shows how to create box plots and how to specify SYMBOL definitions so data outside the box-plot range can be represented with data points. It also shows how to change a box plot's ...

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 ...