title: Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel (Voices That Matter)
author:  Jorge Cam&otilde;es 
description: <b>Jorge Cam&otilde;es</b> has been consulting businesses on how to effectively use information visualizations since 2010 with clients that include the global retail giant, IKEA. Prior to starting his consulting business, Cam&otilde;es worked for 10 years in the business intelligence department of the Portuguese subsidiary of Merck &amp; Co. Cam&otilde;es runs the popular data visualization blog, Excelcharts.com, which has 30K monthly visitors. He works from his home in Lisbon, Portugal.
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  Advanced Excel Charts 
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  About the Tutorial 
  Excel charts are an efficient means to visualize the data to convey the results. In addition 
  to the chart types that are available in Excel, some application charts are popular and 
  widely used. In this tutorial, you will learn about these advanced charts and how you can 
  create them in Excel. 
   
  Audience 
  This guide targets people who want to use graphs or charts in presentations and help 
  people understand data quickly. Whether you want to make a comparison, show a 
  relationship, or highlight a trend, these charts help your audience “see” what you are 
  talking about. 
  Among its many features, Microsoft Excel enables you to incorporate charts, providing a 
  way to add visual appeal to your business reports. 
   
  Prerequisites 
  Before you proceed with this tutorial, we are assuming that you are already aware of the 
  basics of Microsoft Excel charts. If you are not well aware of these concepts, then we will 
  suggest you to go thro