As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

The developers at Digital Dreams don't hold degrees in mathematics or business, nor are they big statistics nerds, but their first Vita game, Metrico, takes place entirely on a landscape of bar graphs ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

To display a record of information in a graphical interface, pie charts, bar diagrams, and other such chart diagrams are the best ways to present or communicate ...

If you’ve ever sat through a PowerPoint presentation or read a quarterly report, you’ve probably been bored by a chart or graph. Chances are, it was blue, red, and yellow on a gray, lined background.

Pie charts are often used to show percentages of a whole. However, Professor Adrian Barnett, a statistician at the Queensland University of Technology, and researcher Victor Ogwoma argue that ``pie ...