Microsoft Excel – Data Visualization, Excel Charts & Graphs

Excel offers the following major chart types. All of these are covered in this course

•     Column Chart
•     Line Chart
•     Pie Chart
•     Doughnut Chart
•     Bar Chart
•     Area Chart
•     XY (Scatter) Chart
•     Bubble Chart
•     Stock Chart
•     Surface Chart
•     Radar Chart
•     Combo Chart
•     Pivot Chart
•     Sparklines

And many other creative ones 🙂

How are charts useful in Excel?

A chart is a tool you can use in Excel to communicate data graphically. Charts allow your audience to see the meaning behind the numbers, and they make showing comparisons and trends much easier.

What are the benefits of using charts in Excel?

Excel charts allow spreadsheet administrators to create visualizations of data sets. By highlighting a set of data within an Excel spreadsheet and feeding it into the charting tool, users can easily create various types of charts in which the data is displayed in a graphical way.