Comments on: Partition Charts – Continuation – [More visualization fun] http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/07/10/partition-charts-visualization-fun/ Fresh Excel Tips, Tricks, Charts, Tutorials, Downloads, Dashboards and Visualization Showcase for your Inspiration and Productivity Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:15:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: 5 Superb Visualizations of the Week [Oct 17] | Pointy Haired Dilbert - Chandoo.org http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/07/10/partition-charts-visualization-fun/#comment-25720 5 Superb Visualizations of the Week [Oct 17] | Pointy Haired Dilbert - Chandoo.org Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:20:51 +0000 http://chandoo.org/wp/?p=850#comment-25720 [...] super-intelligent shade of color blue from the Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy, is essentially a square pie chart with colors based on the emotions contained in the text. [via Information [...] [...] super-intelligent shade of color blue from the Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy, is essentially a square pie chart with colors based on the emotions contained in the text. [via Information [...]

]]> By: Chandoo http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/07/10/partition-charts-visualization-fun/#comment-14656 Chandoo Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:38:57 +0000 http://chandoo.org/wp/?p=850#comment-14656 @Jon .. thanks for the post, I agree with your point that a pie or bar is any day better than the cryptic looking de-fragged partition chart or square pies. But they are reasonable alternatives to pie charts and make people to sit up and take notice of the chart in front of them. How many times we see news papers /websites / articles with pie charts / bar charts and promptly ignore what it is telling us because we are too used to those patterns? @Jon .. thanks for the post, I agree with your point that a pie or bar is any day better than the cryptic looking de-fragged partition chart or square pies. But they are reasonable alternatives to pie charts and make people to sit up and take notice of the chart in front of them. How many times we see news papers /websites / articles with pie charts / bar charts and promptly ignore what it is telling us because we are too used to those patterns?

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/07/10/partition-charts-visualization-fun/#comment-14528 Jon Peltier Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:15:03 +0000 http://chandoo.org/wp/?p=850#comment-14528 I had a few words to say about this chart type (the defragged partition chart). It seems that WordPress has eaten my comment, but that's okay. I took the gist of it and wrote another post: <a href="http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/07/10/ineffective-chart-partition-chart-revisited-defragged/" rel="nofollow">Ineffective Chart - Partition Chart Revisited (Defragged)</a> The defragmented version of the chart is better, but still not as good as other types. For example, it's still not easy to eyeball which of the light orange and brown regions is different, without having the legend to tell you which is 22% and which is 30%. I had a few words to say about this chart type (the defragged partition chart). It seems that WordPress has eaten my comment, but that’s okay. I took the gist of it and wrote another post:

Ineffective Chart – Partition Chart Revisited (Defragged)

The defragmented version of the chart is better, but still not as good as other types. For example, it’s still not easy to eyeball which of the light orange and brown regions is different, without having the legend to tell you which is 22% and which is 30%.

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