Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones monitor our time and internet usage and online surveys discern our opinions and likes. These data harvests are used for telling us how well ...

In business, pie charts are constant. Just remember your last team meeting, quarterly report, or even a brief look at your sales dashboard. They take raw numbers and make them into simple, colorful ...

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

Pie charts are unique among the types of graphs Excel can make because they only work with limited sets of data. Unlike bar charts and line charts, two or more pie charts do not combine easily, ...

Pie charts help people display complex data in a colorful, organized and compact way. Microsoft Word comes with several pie charts that you can fill with data manually. Manual data entry is fine, but ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. LinkedIn Influencer, Bernard Marr, published this post originally on LinkedIn. Pie charts are one of the most overused graphs in the ...

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, ...

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 ...