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 ...

Microsoft Excel's chart feature makes it pretty simple to "get your piece of the pie" into a spreadsheet, but once you've added that visual, it may seem like you're stuck. Whether you need additional ...

Illustrator is not only for creating vector graphics and images, you can also create graphs. The graphs in Illustrator can be used for presentations and infographics. You can make tweaks to the graphs ...

As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

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, ...

A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.