Two columns or rows of data in Microsoft Excel may contain useful information, but you'll just have a set of numbers. You can give spreadsheet viewers a graphical representation of those numbers by ...

This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to Excel ...

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

Scott International Procedures has released the Scott Plot ePlotting Chart app to help pilots flying overseas trips. Scott IPC's new Scott Plot ePlotting chart app for the Apple iPad keeps a detailed ...

Extracting insight from unstructured information is nothing new for Bloomberg. Every day Bloomberg uses automated systems to pull data from Word documents, PDFs, paragraphs of text, and tables.