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.

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

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, ...

Pie charts help people display complex data in a colorful, organized and compact way. Microsoft Word comes with several pie charts that you can fill with data manually. Manual data entry is fine, but ...

A Half Pie Chart is a 180 degrees graph that represents a composition as a whole. In Microsoft Excel, you can create a half chart if your data range has a total. When a total is in your data range, ...

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 data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.