These obscure charts might be the key to visualizing your data.

Excel has always been my go-to for charts and graphs. It gets the job done, and for quick internal reports, Excel templates make complex tasks dead simple. There's nothing wrong with a basic bar chart ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to Excel ...

Creating Gantt charts in Excel can help you manage project timelines effectively. Follow these steps to create your own Gantt chart: When you embark on a project, you often need a visual ...

on a worksheet, but the same values may look awkward in an Excel chart. By default, charts use the same number format as the worksheet’s original data series. The good news is you do not have to ...