One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones monitor our time and internet usage and online surveys discern our ...

Remember Pie Week? That series of stories, produced with our friends over at Morning Edition in July 2012, was a hit here on The Salt. Well, thanks to the wonders of Internet search, we have an excuse ...

Pie charts help people display complex data in a colorful, organized and compact way. Microsoft Word comes with several pie charts that you can fill with data manually. Manual data entry is fine, but ...

Though businesses have access to an increasing amount of information, not many employees are trained to make sense of it. Chart.io wants to change that by making data visualization easy for anyone.

Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items sold ...

We're all familiar with charts and infographics. Data Cuisine makes them more creative (and delicious) by expressing information with edibles. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech ...