Plot your data

Most people do not really understand data unless it is put into graphs.
Not graphing your own data is like a sign that you are not really interested in your work. If you want to give your supervisors the impression that you are interested in your work, show them graphs of your data.

Proficiency in data graphing software – most likely, Excel, but you can use whatever you are comfortable with – is mandatory if you want to be a good researcher.
Graphing your data is not only a way of understanding it, but also a quality control, because you will most likely spot outliers, misspellings, misreading, much easier on graphs than in tables.

As a researcher – a MSc student, PhD student, postdoc, or anyone doing a research project - your data is only really “yours” if you understand it. And that means, it is only yours if you graphed it.