In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create an interactive Excel dashboard from scratch, focusing on the richest people in ...

Excel chart labels disappearing is a common but frustrating issue that affects many customers worldwide. Here, the axis labels or data labels that should be visible are either missing, skipped, or ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Q. My supervisor wants me to include more data visualizations in my projects. Do you have any suggestions? A. Data visualization transforms raw data into graphical representations, making complex ...

One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

When collecting, analyzing, and sharing data in an Excel chart, it is helpful to be able to represent it in a manner that is quickly and easily understood. Creating a bar or column graph is a great ...

Microsoft Excel and LabVIEW can work very well together as data display and data capture tools. LabVIEW has a built-in virtual interface (VI) for interacting with Excel that is very easy to use once ...

Two weeks ago I announced a bad graph contest to try to encourage software vendors to improve their offerings. Readers nominated a number of bad graphs for the contest. This post discusses some of the ...

Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here’s an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel. This past week, I started mapping out new flowerbeds ...