Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we ...

The scale on the left graph is inappropriate. The numbers go up higher than necessary on both axes. This means the points are squashed into a small part of the graph area and are difficult to read ...

For those in enterprise circles who still conjure black and white images of hulking supercomputers when they hear the name “Cray,” it is worth noting that the long-standing company has done a rather ...

It's a good day when you finally find new information about a Microsoft codename I first heard a couple of years ago, but about which I never could find more information. One of my readers (thanks, ...

Different types of graphs and charts are needed to present results from experiments. Graphs and charts need to be drawn and labelled correctly. Use patterns in the data to reach a conclusion in an ...

When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want to display is shown. You can override the settings and set the vertical and horizontal ...

Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. today launched Infinigraph, calling it a significant advancement in distributed graph technology. The company said the architecture allows users to run both operational ...

A tweet directed me to an interesting article on world population. The author, Jonathan Good, asks the percentage of people who have ever lived that are alive today and then estimates the answer. The ...