Create a table consisting of data or use an existing table consisting of data. Now highlight the table and then go to the Insert tab and click the Object button. An Object dialog box will open. Scroll ...

My readers did it again! They submitted 28 entries of ways to visualize the table in Figure 1. This part of the Graph Makeover Contest was much more challenging than the redesign of the donut chart, ...

Every decade seems to have its database. During the 1990s, the relational database became the principal data environment, its ease of use and tabular arrangement making it a natural for the growing ...

One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Table graphs are great ways to store and display data, but who would have thought that Illustrator could be used to make table graphs? Illustrator is a versatile vector graphic software from Adobe.

Graph databases explicitly express the connections between nodes, and are more efficient at the analysis of networks (computer, human, geographic, or otherwise) than relational databases. There has ...

A few days ago, I was looking for a very specific piece of data: the average age of professors in the US. I did a Google search for “average age of us professors” and, after the obligatory and ...

Data can be presented in many ways that make it quicker and easier to read. In this section we will look at some of these ways. It is important to choose the best way to present data. This is the data ...