As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Though businesses have access to an increasing amount of information, not many employees are trained to make sense of it. Chart.io wants to change that by making data visualization easy for anyone.

What an outstanding group of readers I have! Both the quality and the quantity of entries to the Graph Makeover Contest were amazing. There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which ...

There are various types of graphs used to visually represent data, such as bar graphs, pie charts, and histograms. Chenxing Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia's Center for ...

Pie charts are unique among the types of graphs Excel can make because they only work with limited sets of data. Unlike bar charts and line charts, two or more pie charts do not combine easily, ...

To ensure charts and graphs are compliant with ADA standards, please use alt text to describe the nature or content of the data shown. If a chart is too complex to explain properly through alt text ...

Pie charts are a way to show data. Pie charts show proportions of a whole. The circle of the pie chart represents the whole. That's a full 360 degrees. Each part, or slice, represents part of the ...

A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.

Pie charts help people display complex data in a colorful, organized and compact way. Microsoft Word comes with several pie charts that you can fill with data manually. Manual data entry is fine, but ...