The legend on an Excel scatter plot is simply a list of the names for each of the series on the chart. The legend is color coordinated, so you can quickly determine which data points belong to which ...

Extracting insight from unstructured information is nothing new for Bloomberg. Every day Bloomberg uses automated systems to pull data from Word documents, PDFs, paragraphs of text, and tables.

Last month we showed how thickness and tone can be used to make axes, ticks and grids more effective by keeping them distinct from data. The principle of visual separability applies equally to labels, ...