Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

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 ...

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 ...

Part I of our series on graph analytics introduced us to graph analytics, and its brethren graph databases. We talked about the use of graph analytics to understand and visualize relationships between ...

Graphs and charts are fantastic tools for displaying data in an attractive visual format. This can make seeing data at a glance easy, which allows you to spot patterns or anomalies quickly. With the ...

How to use the Geography data type to quickly add a map chart in Excel Your email has been sent Most will agree that a picture is worth a thousand words, and where geographical data is concerned, it’s ...

Whether you’re genuinely interested in getting insights and solving problems using data, or just attracted by what has been called “the most promising career” by LinkedIn and the “best job in America” ...

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 ...