{ 3 comments }

Fun way to clean up modern art with visualization

in Cool Infographics & Data Visualizations on November 25th, 2008


TED Talks are a great way to keep your mind nourished. They inspire you, give you a ton of new ideas. I saw this ted talk (embedded below) Tidying up art by Ursus Wehrli and couldn’t resist sharing it with you. It is an entertaining one and I recommend watching it.

In this talk the speaker takes a swipe at modern art by showing us ways to clean up the apparent gibberish in to meaningful bar charts. Take a look at these two examples:

This is the perfect example of how visualizations bring order and insights out of data that looks chaotic.

Subscribe for PHD Email updates and get a free excel e-book with 95 tips & tricks
Delicious Stumble it

« Prev | Home | Advanced Data Validation Techniques in Excel [spreadcheats] »

Have an Excel Question?

Custom Search


Trackbacks & Pingbacks

Comments
Jon Peltier November 25, 2008

Chandoo -

What a coincidence! I did the same thing with a donut chart in my post for this morning, Leave the Donuts for the Cops, and Stick with the Bars. My graphic looks like the top right one here.

Chandoo November 25, 2008

@Jon: that is some coincidence… while modern art certainly needs some clean up to interpret, donuts on the other hand need to be removed from the slides and placed where the belong - near pantry or my desk :)

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

   Name (required)

   E-mail (required, never displayed)

   URL


Join Our Community