Microsoft Excel charts give you a large number of options for displaying the data in your spreadsheet. Sometimes, it is useful and informative to plot two different sets of data on the same chart, ...

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If you write things on the Internet, angry email is inevitable. If you make charts on the Internet, angry email about those charts is inevitable. Especially if your charts sometimes use a y-axis that ...

Kind of a niche thing... I'm writing a tool to visualize our data as it stands in the DB (old/legacy build) versus how it would look with different build parameters (new hotness.) To do this I'm ...

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet to ...

A date-and-cost line chart tracks a commodity's changing price over time. Economists use such diagrams to display broad market trends and predict future prices. Businesses that restock continually use ...

If you write things on the internet, angry email is inevitable. If you make charts on the internet, angry email about those charts is inevitable. Especially if your charts sometimes use a y-axis that ...