When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want to display is shown. You can override the settings and set the vertical and horizontal ...

Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we should expect that the representation of the numbers be proportional to the numbers themselves. Unfortunately, this is not ...

For those in enterprise circles who still conjure black and white images of hulking supercomputers when they hear the name “Cray,” it is worth noting that the long-standing company has done a rather ...

A tweet directed me to an interesting article on world population. The author, Jonathan Good, asks the percentage of people who have ever lived that are alive today and then estimates the answer. The ...

It's a good day when you finally find new information about a Microsoft codename I first heard a couple of years ago, but about which I never could find more information. One of my readers (thanks, ...