Stories are now increasingly grounded in numbers as people generate more and more data while going about their daily routines. Making sense of this data and finding stories in it is no longer an area ...

You’ve seen the cartoons: A guy in a hospital bed, simple line graph indicating his progress. “But how was that graph produced?” asks Sarasota’s Steve Rothman. “Most people assume that it’s real, but ...

The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

Investors who read stock charts can use moving averages, price action and volume signals to sell stocks. Add to that toolbox a simple straight line. If a stock breaks its long-term price trend, that's ...