Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Have you tried to visualize your traffic flows? Did you have the problem that your graphs got really cluttered? Did you find a way around that problem? Did you filter data? Did you aggregate multiple ...

This week’s Gearhead discusses Sparklines, a powerful technique for communicating numeric information. Invented by Edward Tufte, the guru of information display, Sparklines are (in Tufte’s words): ...

Let’s say you are showing data to students and you want to talk about the changes in certain data over time. You can quickly highlight the trends by using sparklines, which are mini graphs of selected ...

Q. Can you suggest any quick ways to help data stand out in large tables of information? Not dashboards, but something within the tables themselves to allow for quick recognition of patterns without ...