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 ...

In my previous article, "How To Display Log Data Using Bubble Charts," I explained how bubble charts can be a convenient and useful tool for monitoring a datacenter. Equally useful for monitoring a ...

Statistician Howard Wainer and psychologist Michael Friendly are numbers magicians — they make the invisible visible. Two of the world’s leading figures in the field of data visualization, they are co ...

These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused by the COVID-19 crisis are felt far and wide, and the world's economies have taken a staggering blow. As with most things in ...

In the days before every piece of equipment was an internet-connected box with an OLED display, engineers had to be a bit more creative with how they chose to communicate information to the user.

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

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 ...

Do you see it? The line graph, in the artwork above? Take another look. Whoa, right? Artist and scientist Jill Pelto combines art with scientific data to raise awareness about climate change. In this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Jul 03, 2025, 10:43am EDT Business 3d tablet virtual growth ...