If you're using Excel to try to tell a story with data, plotting the data in this application should be the first step in your data visualization process, not your last. It takes time, iterations, and sometimes some brute force to get from the graphing application's defaults to a visual that you're proud to present.

In this post, I look at a solution for embedding a graph within a table in an effort to help the audience more easily visualize the tabular data.