As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

To display a record of information in a graphical interface, pie charts, bar diagrams, and other such chart diagrams are the best ways to present or communicate information visually. If you don’t have ...

The Chart Wizard of earlier versions may be gone in Excel 2007, but creating charts is still as easy as ever. Beyond building basic charts there are various techniques you can use to make your charts ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

Pie charts are a way to show data. Pie charts show proportions of a whole. The circle of the pie chart represents the whole. That's a full 360 degrees. Each part, or slice, represents part of the ...

A staggering number of really bad graphs are drawn daily. Some are the fault of the designers but often the software used to produce the graph is to blame. Use the comment area or email me at naomi at ...

Pie charts are unique among the types of graphs Excel can make because they only work with limited sets of data. Unlike bar charts and line charts, two or more pie charts do not combine easily, ...

Whether it’s for a work meeting or a class assignment, presenting data to others is a common task on our to-do list. We use ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. LinkedIn Influencer, Bernard Marr, published this post originally on LinkedIn. Pie charts are one of the most overused graphs in the ...