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.

Excel has always been my go-to for charts and graphs. It gets the job done, and for quick internal reports, Excel templates ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick. Data is best understood when presented ...

There are dozens of chart types for visualizing data, yet analysts come back to bar charts, time and time again. Simply put, bar charts are really good at what they do: they’re quick to create, show ...

If you’re looking to improve your skills in creating Excel charts and transform how you visually represent data, this guide by Simon Sez IT is an excellent resource. It covers everything from reliable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Data visualization has become a hot topic and more and more blogs and books ...

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

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