Microsoft Excel is designed to organize and interpret small and large amounts of data. Building a curved graph in Excel based on X and Y data points is fairly simple. You begin by adding the data ...

Pie charts show percentages as a circle divided into segments. A pie chart could be used to show how students travel to school. Each piece of data is shown as a proportion of 360, because there are ...

The interactive PLOT statement available in PROC REG enables you to look at scatter plots of data and diagnostic statistics. These plots can help you to evaluate the model and detect outliers in your ...

A scatterplot chart graphs two related data values as a single dot by plotting one value on the horizontal X axis and the other value on the vertical Y axis. For example, you could plot an employee's ...

The 'line of best fit' is a line that goes roughly through the middle of all the scatter points on a graph. The closer the points are to the line of best fit the stronger the correlation is. This ...

Extracting insight from unstructured information is nothing new for Bloomberg. Every day Bloomberg uses automated systems to pull data from Word documents, PDFs, paragraphs of text, and tables.

In addition to using the shape, size, and color attributes to control the markers, you can specify a categorical variable whose values control these marker characteristics. To do so, use the ...