Two columns or rows of data in Microsoft Excel may contain useful information, but you'll just have a set of numbers. You can give spreadsheet viewers a graphical representation of those numbers by ...

Along with bar charts, scatter plots are probably the most common type of graph to help managers make decisions based on data. When you have a data set consisting of pairs of numbers, such as counts ...

The legend on an Excel scatter plot is simply a list of the names for each of the series on the chart. The legend is color coordinated, so you can quickly determine which data points belong to which ...

Every three months, the central bank updates a scatter chart showing where top officials believe rates are headed. Not everyone is a fan of the anonymous projections.

Despite the chant that correlation is not causation, some researchers believe the design of scatter plots nudges us to the wrong conclusions. Can a change in their design lessen that risk? Analyzing ...

An international team of mathematicians, led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim, has introduced an innovative method ...