January 13, 2012
Whether you’re putting together a report for work, or you just want to represent information on your blog in a graphical way, Google Fusion Tables can help. Google Fusion is actually a feature embedded into Google Docs, that lets you transform raw information that’s stored in a tabular or spreadsheet format into a more visually appealing way.
July 13, 2011
Charts, as an illustrated way of showing boring facts and figures, has always helped to embellish professional Word documents. Charts help readers compare data and understand trends with a glance. But how do you create that impact with a well-designed chart? Let MS Word 2010 and its Chart tools show you the way.
June 10, 2011
In the age of infographics, flowcharts are a great tool for getting your point across without using too many words. If you routinely create flowcharts as part of your work, you may already be using a full-featured product such as Microsoft Visio. But if flowcharts aren’t yet a big part of your process, you may want to give Diagramly a look. The best thing about Diagramly is how accessible it is.
March 6, 2010
Data visualization and analysis is extremely important in today’s information driven world. Such feats have given insights into various aspects of human life and, if utilized properly, can help to make the world a better place. Hans Rosling’s TED talk is a testimony to this fact. There are plenty of software available to create charts [...]
October 30, 2009
If you’re like me, you love the idea of charts and can think of dozens of useful applications for them, but when it comes to creating them, the frustration starts. Charts often make decision making easy. They’re a nice change from staring at rows and columns of numbers. They add some style and pizazz to [...]
October 12, 2009
One of the things that I have to do often at my “day job” as an automation engineer is create schematics of machinery and electrical control circuits that make it easier to collaborate with electricians who need to understand how my software controller interfaces with the machinery. In most large corporations, you’ll use professional CAD [...]
October 6, 2009
Do you diagram? Chart? Maybe you sketch room layouts or wiring schematics? How about flow charts? Most people in the corporate world use the industry standard (and expensive) Microsoft Visio. So what do you do if you are in need of Visio but you can’t afford it or don’t want to use another Micro$oft product? [...]
July 29, 2009
I am a self-confessed movie addict. IMDB is on my bookmarks toolbar. I love reading and writing movie reviews, and cataloging my movies online. MakeUseOf reviewed lots of web services for movie addicts. But now, I am addicted and obsessed with Flickchart, a new website that I can’t get enough of! Flickchart is in public [...]
April 28, 2009
Finding and listening to new music is one of my favorite uses of the Web. There are a ton of music sites out there that are constantly finding, sharing, and promoting great new music. Countless new artists are being discovered thanks to the Web, and the music world is booming because of it. Well, the [...]
January 29, 2009
When displaying your work in a presentation, it can often be difficult to visualize your data for the benefit of your audience. If you are working with numeric data, your data can be displayed in a number of different charts but there are so many to choose from. Chart Chooser from Juice Analytics is an [...]
