Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Microsoft Excel is designed to organize and interpret small and large amounts of data. Building a curved graph in Excel based on X and Y data points is fairly simple. You begin by adding the data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. In my last post I criticized a figure showing Facebook valuations over time.

Overview: Fair scales, readable colours, and simple layouts help audiences understand information quickly.Clean data and ...

Adobe Illustrator's Graph tool opens a miniature spreadsheet-like window into which you can enter rows and columns of data to produce column, bar, line, area, scatter, pie and radar graphs. Its line ...

Now more than ever, visuals are used to relay facts and figures in business, politics and socioeconomics. Data visualizations, such as graphs, charts and tables, are commonplace in presentations. When ...

Do you see it? The line graph, in the artwork above? Take another look. Whoa, right? Artist and scientist Jill Pelto combines art with scientific data to raise awareness about climate change. In this ...