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 ...

When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want to display is shown. You can override the settings and set the vertical and horizontal ...

A time graph is a line graph which shows you data that has been collected over a period of time. There is a title which tells you what the data in the time graph is about. The horizontal (X) and ...

Any equation that can be rearranged into the form \(y = mx + c\), will have a straight line graph. \(m\) is the gradient, or steepness of the graph, and \(c\) is the \(y\)-intercept, or where the line ...

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 ...