Enter the “ Column Column Chart ” in Microsoft Excel, a clever visualization technique that combines category-level data with overall totals to tell a more complete story.

Excel measures the distance between data points in a chart as a percentage. In this example, the gap width is 50%, meaning the space between each column is half the width of the columns themselves.

For the sunburst chart to work, you must order your data by the largest category (the innermost circle). So, in the example above, the table is sorted by the continent column.

Master Excel charts to transform data into compelling visuals. Learn advanced techniques for effective data visualization.

Each of these new column pairs will be used to plot a series of smaller concentric bull’s-eye circles. When plotted on an Excel Scatter Chart, these data points will form a total of four circles, ...

The Switch Row or Column feature allows you to swap data over the axis. Learn how to switch Rows and Columns in Microsoft Excel.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.

Are you constantly changing your Excel chart's data range as new information becomes available? Mary Ann Richardson shows how to set up the chart to automatically update as you add new rows of ...