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#DayDohViz: Play-Doh as a Tool for Data Visualization

Jul 10th, 2018 / Data Visualization

Guest blogger Amy Cesal shares all the ways she used Play-Doh to approach data visualization as a way to participate in The 100 Day Project, a creativity project that requires making one thing, every day for 100 days.

How to Make a Bubble Chart in Microsoft Excel

Mar 12th, 2013 / Data Visualization

Here’s a step-by-step guide to making circle charts (or “bubble” charts) in Microsoft Excel. You’ll learn how to use x, y, and z values to control the location and size of your circles.

Dataviz Challenge #1: Can You Make a Circle Chart in Excel?

Feb 26th, 2013 / Data Visualization

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a huge fan of Microsoft Excel. Sometimes evaluators are hesitant to use Excel. One misconception is that Excel is only good for 3-D exploding pie charts, boring bar charts, and random radar charts. But Excel can do more than you think! So here’s my challenge to you: can you make a circle chart in Excel?