To experience the breadth of Excel’s data visualization offerings, let’s take a tour of some of the most useful charts, starting with the basic ones and moving to the more advanced. To follow along, ...

A line chart connects a series of data points and is used by traders to monitor prices, currencies, indexes, and other data.

Consider the following three key questions the next time you see a graph, map or other data visual so you can confidently decide what to do with that new nugget of information.

Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems. Hannah Fry on the history of data visualization.