Data visualizations using rainbow color scales are ubiquitous in many fields of science, depicting everything from ocean temperatures to brain activity to Martian topography. But cartographers have ...

Have you ever stared at a massive Excel spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows of numbers, wishing there was a faster way to make sense of it all? Here’s the good news: Excel 365’s conditional formatting ...

Today marks the 102nd anniversary of the passing of Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in U.S. history. Madam Walker was born in 1867 as the first free child of former slaves ...

The type of graph is important to show the meaning of the data in an easy-to-understand manner, but the color coding is also an important factor. Color coding can indicate that the data is of the same ...

In early 1977 the Optical Society of America (OSA) published a set of uniform color samples based on specifications developed by its Committee on Uniform Color Scales, of which the author is a member.

How to easily sum values by a cell’s background color in Excel Your email has been sent Color is a great visual tool in most any sheet. That’s why so many of Excel’s built-in features include color.

Many black Americans have light skin. Using vivid and varied personal experiences, Judy Scales-Trent describes what it is like to be a "white" black woman and to live simultaneously inside and outside ...