Create a table consisting of data or use an existing table consisting of data. Now highlight the table and then go to the Insert tab and click the Object button. An Object dialog box will open. Scroll ...

One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

Microsoft Excel can present two series of data points together on the horizontal axis, but if the number scale for each series dramatically differs, the data will not be readable. Using a two-sided ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

For the past few years, I've been trying to understand how to make graphs using RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) after failing miserably to understand MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) before ...

Before talking about best practices for visually presenting scientific data, it is important to summarize and define what tools are available. For most fields, graphs are the most common form of ...