Microsoft Excel produces great charts, but sometimes they’re not visually pleasing. Learn how to change a few formats to yield a professional-looking chart within minutes. Area charts do a great job ...

You don't have to launch Excel when you need to view data relationships graphically. Microsoft Word contains tools to produce colorful, professional looking graphs. A general Area chart that has ...

Treemap has nine variations, all of which show a hierarchical view of the target data and how the sections of that hierarchy compare in size to each other. The main branches of the tree are displayed ...

Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet app offers a wide variety of charts to help interpret the data in its tables (as does its Pages word processor). But when you want to turn numbers into pictures, you need ...

One of the Bay Area’s most powerful weapons in keeping its COVID-19 death rate so low was not a secret one. It was the region’s embrace of vaccines. But the impact of those vaccinations is ...

I bought a personal mobile hotspot recently when I found myself in an apartment with internet that was so slow it was useless. I was counting on access to the internet to get necessary work done and ...

This week’s first storms brought 1 to 2 inches of rain to most Bay Area cities. The chart shows the National Weather Service’s precipitation totals from Sunday, Feb. 26, through Tuesday, Feb. 28. The ...