Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program includes a Chart Wizard for making a variety of graphs from tabulated data. In some situations, as with scientific experiments, the data in one or both axes of ...

Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

Odds are you haven't used logarithms since your teacher introduced them to you in high school mathematics, if you can remember back that far. But for investors who count on price charts to gauge stock ...

We are living in pivotal times. Compute power has reached unprecedented levels and is affecting how we do business at every level. Those who embrace those technological advances accelerate their ...

Planets that exist in the solar system have a geometric series relationship with the distance of adjacent planets if they are arranged in order from the sun closest to the sun, the ratio falling ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is no more contentious area of chart design than the choice of scale — the mechanism by which numbers of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Video: Chart doctor: the bubble chart Professor Hans Rosling, who died this week aged 68, was well known for ...