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Four Stats Formulas that Every Spreadsheet User Should Know About

Summarizing datasets for use in your data visualizations doesn’t have to be time consuming and frustrating. This article will outline four statistical formulas that every spreadsheet user should know.

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3 Data Visualization “Aha” Moments to Ensure Your Data Has the Impact it Should

Cheryl Davis, a senior analyst, outlines the ways in which she has benefited from enrolling in Ann K. Emery’s online course, Great Graphs.

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How to Add Dotted Lines to Line Graphs in Microsoft Excel

What to do if you’re missing chronological data? Learn how to represent the missing data by turning solid lines into dotted lines.

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Reports Before (So Embarrassing) and After (So Exciting) Taking Great Graphs by Ann K. Emery

Christine Leonard outlines the many ways that taking Ann K. Emery’s ‘Great Graph’s course has helped her to step up her game when presenting results through report style and color schemes, graphs and qualitative data.

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How to Check Whether Your Graphs are Grayscale-Friendly

Here’s how to quickly see what your graphs are going to look like when printed in grayscale–without having to actually waste ink by printing a draft.

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Condensing Many Data Elements into an At-a-Glance Directory Using Symbols, Reference Codes and Colors

Guest author Anna Williams was tasked with developing a national directory of organizations working on sexual and reproductive health for one of the United Nations’ country offices. In this blog post, Anna gives you a behind-the-scenes peek at that searchable Excel database.

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