One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

Microsoft Excel can present two series of data points together on the horizontal axis, but if the number scale for each series dramatically differs, the data will not be readable. Using a two-sided ...

In the quest to teach software to understand language, scientists have mainly focused on text as a source of data to help train their algorithms. Among other things, text is used to populate a ...

Marginal frequencies are the sums of the rows and columns in a two-way frequency table. They represent the total counts for ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Before talking about best practices for visually presenting scientific data, it is important to summarize and define what tools are available. For most fields, graphs are the most common form of ...

For the past few years, I've been trying to understand how to make graphs using RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) after failing miserably to understand MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) before ...

When graphing your data, meticulous attention to detail is paramount to ensure accurate representation, insightful analysis, and effective communication of findings. Graphing is not merely about ...