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 ...

Discover the power of a burn up chart. See examples, learn how to create one, and track scope, progress, and team performance ...

To help draw a straight line graph from its equation, fill in a table of 𝑥 and 𝑦 values. Plot the pairs of values as coordinates and join to make a line. Make sure you are confident with ...

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

Properly formatted charts and graphs can help you grasp the patterns and trends hidden within the raw data of an Excel spreadsheet. For example, if you are comparing the stock performance of two ...

This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always the Best Way to Show Time Series. The comment by Meic Goodyear said, “A small point, but you could improve your Figure 2 ...