Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet platform used to organize and interpret data. With Excel, you make calculations and analyze statistical data based on columns and rows of information. Excel ...

If you write things on the internet, angry email is inevitable. If you make charts on the internet, angry email about those charts is inevitable. Especially if your charts sometimes use a y-axis that ...

I blew it! In my post earlier this morning about charts with dual y-axes I picked some miscellaneous data as an illustration. Then I saw a tweet about an article written in October that lays out the ...

Dual-axis graphs, which have two y-axes, are useful because they allow you to see different data at a glance. However, this graph has many problems, and Datawrapper, a data visualization tool, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The intersection of business value and technical value has become an anchor of enterprise ...

Today let’s discuss one of the great blogging controversies of our time. Having dispensed earlier with the Oxford comma (yes) and how to treat the word data (it’s singular), it’s time to take on the ...

Every start-up I see invariably puts up a competitive analysis slide that plots performance on a X/Y graph with their company in the top right. The slide is a holdover from when existing companies ...