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 ...

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The problem: The app must store a collection of people and who they know. Sometimes it must find out everyone who knows someone who knows Bob. Sometimes it must look further for everyone who is three ...

Microsoft Excel is an extremely capable tool for organizing and analyzing data, but in its raw form this data can be hard to ...

Obsidian is my favorite note-taking application, bar none, but it has a problem: the graph view, as fun as it is, is practically useless. Even with a relatively small vault, the graph view quickly ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...