A single large value in Microsoft Excel can disrupt your whole graph. For example, if you create a bar graph showing the market share held by each company in your industry, a single dominant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always ...

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 ...