Most graphs chart data that you currently have, but in the course of running a business, you may find you need to design graphs before their data is available. For example, you might use Microsoft ...

Common Excel visuals like pies, 3D charts, and dual axes often mislead more than they clarify data.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...