For even the most new-to-the-program users, compiling a graph in Microsoft Excel is fairly intuitive. Excel offers a one-click option on its "Insert" menu to take data on a spreadsheet and render it ...

Transforming a simple line chart into an adaptable timeline is easier than you think.

To animate a line graph in PowerPoint, you need to open the slide, draw the Graph add the labels and then animate the graph as explained below. let us see this in detail. Launch PowerPoint. Change the ...

This figure appears in the October 31, 2011 edition of NJBiz. I noticed immediately that while the pink line ends in September, the blue line labeled "2011" has data for all twelve months. This was ...

Labeling all or some of your data with text can help tell a story — even when your graph is using other cues like color and size. ggplot has a couple of built-in ways of doing this, and the ggrepel ...

Adobe Illustrator's Graph tool opens a miniature spreadsheet-like window into which you can enter rows and columns of data to produce column, bar, line, area, scatter, pie and radar graphs. Its line ...

This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always the Best Way to Show Time Series. The comment by Meic Goodyear said, “A small point, but you could improve your Figure 2 ...