Comments on: 6 charts you will see in hell

By: Idea Works Blog » Statistics that Tell a Story

Idea Works Blog » Statistics that Tell a Story — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:43:11 +0000

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By: brad.baker

brad.baker — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:02:13 +0000

Gotta agree with #1 comment. :3

By: Interview With Presentation Zen’s Garr Reynolds on Charting & Telling Stories | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:01:27 +0000

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Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:45:00 +0000

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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:46:52 +0000

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By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:47:33 +0000

@Gerald: usually downtown charts look ugly even with few (10) rows of data. But in rare cases where only one item is very large compared to others (As in your case) they may look good.

Btw, you can share your chart by saving it as an image and uploading it to a free host like flickr.com and linking it through comments. I know it is a bit lengthy process, but due to excessive spam I had to do this.

Welcome to PHD

By: Gerald Higgins

Gerald Higgins — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:43:02 +0000

I disagree with point #5 – downtown can be good, as long as you only have 2 or 3 Empire State Buildings, and everything else is 10 storeys or less (approximately !).

I made one that I use at work – will be happy to post it here if I can work out how . . .

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Chandoos’ 6 Favorite Charts | PTS Blog — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:19:04 +0000

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By: ROW

ROW — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:41:10 +0000

Nice site and I would say clever use of excel but for this post I don’t really agree with #4.

#4 is infact a v useful way of depicting sub divisions inside a particular category.

If you are including everything in single pie, it will mean that those sub categories are different individual categories in themselves.

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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:59:59 +0000

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