Descriptive labels on an Excel chart enhance its readability and help you interpret the information the chart contains. Whether naming comes in the form of text, numbers or a combination, both the x ...

Double-click the chart's left axis to open the Format Axis side panel. Click "Axis Value" to allow manual control over the axis. Enter the number you wish to use for the axis in the field provided. To ...

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 ...

This is excellent. Last night a friend sent us this post by redditor TheIndieArmy, who observes that “the popularity graph for the name Bruce looks awfully familiar.” We love coincidences, but the ...

A new update has come from the insurance sector. The name of Max Life Insurance, a subsidiary of popular insurance company Max Financial Services Limited (MFSL), has changed. Now it will be known by ...

Recently, we tried to find out how you could get the cheapest horsepower possible — what car packs the most ponies in for the fewest bucks. I thought the results were quite interesting and surprising, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During this morning’s Planned Parenthood hearings, Rep. Jason Chaffetz displayed a ...

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The scale on the left graph is inappropriate. The numbers go up higher than necessary on both axes. This means the points are squashed into a small part of the graph area and are difficult to read ...

Once again we see how misleading a bar chart without a zero baseline appears. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that any bar graph needs a zero baseline. Thanks to the readers who sent me emails ...