Although you don't have to format your data as an Excel table, doing so will make life easier if you add more rows or columns, and Excel generally reads data formatted as a table ...

To experience the breadth of Excel’s data visualization offerings, let’s take a tour of some of the most useful charts, starting with the basic ones and moving to the more advanced. To follow along, ...

If users go too overboard with their designs and data visualization charts, they could end up inadvertently distorting insights. For example, pie charts should always be 2D. 3D pie charts might ...

Here's that same data as above, only on a 3D Pie Chart ... Last week I made the comment that pie charts are the Nickelback of data visualization. That comment got a lot of circulation.

Tables, graphs and 3D bar charts just don't cut it anymore ... The conference session schedule lists 11 presentations on data visualization, another tool to further Microsoft's cause of self-service ...

Donut charts are perfect for layered data visualization. By creating multi ... is self-explanatory with clear titles and labels Avoid 3D effects or excessive decorations that can distort data ...

In the past decade, computer-aided data visualization has migrated from ... for example, creating 3D pie charts. Advocating easier-to-read chart formats Cairo takes on a visualization format ...