The point of charts is to communicate data effectively. Or, at least, that is the point according to data-visualization experts. The truth about why people like and use charts is more complicated than ...

Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones monitor our time and internet usage and online surveys discern our opinions and likes. These data harvests are used for telling us how well ...

We're all familiar with charts and infographics. Data Cuisine makes them more creative (and delicious) by expressing information with edibles. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech ...

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, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. LinkedIn Influencer, Bernard Marr, published this post originally on LinkedIn. Pie charts are one of the most overused graphs in the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

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.