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 ...

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, ...

Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items sold ...

If you want to create a pie chart in Excel, this step-by-step guide is for you. In this article, we would consider the Hierarchical Sunburst chart as a type of pie chart, though the procedure for ...

It offers four tabs under Visualize that include Chart type, Refine, Annotate, and Layout. The last one lets you view your ...

Remember Pie Week? That series of stories, produced with our friends over at Morning Edition in July 2012, was a hit here on The Salt. Well, thanks to the wonders of Internet search, we have an excuse ...

When we have health anxiety, we tend to assume that many or all symptoms are indicative of serious illness. We do this because we overestimate the likelihood of serious disease. Inflating the numbers ...

The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age’s lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of “graphical statistics,” aka data ...