One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

Create a table consisting of data or use an existing table consisting of data. Now highlight the table and then go to the Insert tab and click the Object button. An Object dialog box will open. Scroll ...

Microsoft Excel can present two series of data points together on the horizontal axis, but if the number scale for each series dramatically differs, the data will not be readable. Using a two-sided ...

In the quest to teach software to understand language, scientists have mainly focused on text as a source of data to help train their algorithms. Among other things, text is used to populate a ...

Images, graphs, and tables are wonderful ways to communicate information quickly and effectively to an audience. However, they must be presented and organized correctly to be useful. All images, ...

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 ...

Before talking about best practices for visually presenting scientific data, it is important to summarize and define what tools are available. For most fields, graphs are the most common form of ...

For the past few years, I've been trying to understand how to make graphs using RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) after failing miserably to understand MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) before ...