ABSTRACT

Using Microsoft Excel’s graphic capabilities, data can be transposed into visual displays that make interpretation and subsequent decision making easier. Most of us, even with the best education, cannot quickly and meaningfully interpret data such as presented in the Icebreaker. However, presented as a graph, histogram, or bar chart information can more easily be understood. All media publications:The Economist; TheNewYorkTimes,Wall Street Journal; Time; Fortune and others either in a print version or on the Web use visual displays. They are relatively easy to understand.