CHAPTER 4

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The Excel Data Presentation Library

As you can imagine, there are many ways to present your data to the world. However, some ways are better than others. Excel gives you the flexibility and choice of how to present your data, but not every default chart or recommendation by Excel is worth heeding. In this chapter, you’ll move through the list of data presentation and chart types that I particularly like…and the ones that I don’t like. This list is by no means comprehensive, but you should get an idea of what kind of data visualization technologies are worth presenting in your work.

Tables

The most basic of these types of representations ...

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