When you dive into Excel, you quickly realize the power it holds for data analysis and prediction. Two of the most potent tools at your disposal are the TREND and FORECAST functions. These functions ...

Data is rarely so uniform and predictable that plotting data points creates a perfectly linear arrangement. Scatter charts might have wildly varying plots that create a seemingly random correlation ...

So, you want to know how to create a scatter plot in Excel. Chances are, you probably already know what the term means, but given Microsoft Excel’s arsenal of options packed into each tab, getting ...

A trendline in Excel is a line that shows a general trend (upwards/downwards or increase/decline). Thus, it can help in a quick interpretation of the data. The trendline in Excel can be added to a ...

Let’s say you are showing data to students and you want to talk about the changes in certain data over time. You can quickly highlight the trends by using sparklines, which are mini graphs of selected ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

Excel charts containing large amounts of data prevent readers for easily reading small segments. For example, if a chart tracks your company's daily sales over the course of several years, you cannot ...

So far in this series, we have looked at querying systems using WMI to pull the drive space and then spent some time looking at sending that data to a SQL server database where it can be saved for ...