You can buck the stereotype of PowerPoint presentations as bullet-pointed snoozefest. PowerPoint has a wealth of new graphics, layout, and animation features to liven up your deck. We’ll focus on how ...

You may have used Excel for years without delving into Styles (or stylesheets), but they can make work easier and faster—and more visually appealing. In this feature, we’re going to go over Cell ...

Sometimes, data can be illustrated with the help of something as simple as a slice of pizza. Other times, the figures underlying research are less easily digested. For the roughly 30 pieces of data ...

To ensure charts and graphs are compliant with ADA standards, please use alt text to describe the nature or content of the data shown. If a chart is too complex to explain properly through alt text ...

Financial news site Quartz has open sourced its in-house chart-creation tool. Why yet another graphics tool? This one aims to let one technically savvy user offer non-technical colleagues a fast, easy ...

AN AUDIENCE UNDERSTANDS AND REMEMBERS numerical information more easily when a CPA presents it visually as well as verbally. TO SELECT THE PROPER CHART OR GRAPH to add to a written or oral report, a ...

Last year, an interactive graphic about insurance turned out to be one of ProPublica’s most popular pieces of the year. I’m going to tell you about some things we learned in the process of designing ...

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In this collaborative and inclusive team, you will find a group of about 30 data journalists, researchers, designers and developers from around the world. We focus on data, storytelling and novel ...