Sailors interested in building their very own computer-controlled chart plotter using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a project created earlier this year by James Conger, which ...

You might think of Microsoft's Excel as your only tool to handle data and create plots. But frankly, I hate to use Excel for charts and graphs because it lacks the flexibility I need and formatting ...

Different chart types emphasize different aspects of the data. I show a simple data set and plot it three simple ways to show that each emphasizes a different message. All use bar charts. The data ...

When creating a chart in Microsoft Excel, there may be a lot of extra white space surrounding the actual data. When printing or sharing the chart in other applications this can create a lot of ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

l“We are starting to move into the paperless way of doing things,” international Capt. Nat Iyengar observed. The old school was the reporting form, or overwater log, which accompanied the flight plan ...

A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other graphics ...