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Lets Pimp a Gauge Chart [Chart Porn Friday]

  • Last updated on November 6, 2009
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Egil, one of our alert readers from Norway sent this to me in e-mail, which I swear, I am not making up – A Fancy Gauge Chart. See the e-mail and chart yourself.
Fancy Gauge Chart - Excel

I’m having a lot of fun with your gauge template 🙂
To make it more industrial-like, I’ve added:
1. Brushed metal background picture
2. Gradient fill format to the pie shares
3. A gradient fill. semi-transparent square (to make glass effect)
4. Sqrew-head pics

The original gauge chart template behind Egil’s industrious effort caused enough debate among our community.

I think gauges are a poor way to visualize data, but I don’t completely shoot them down either. Gauges connect well with certain type of audience / situations – like kids, informal communications, conveying just one point etc. But it would be disastrous to have a gauge chart on your weekly dashboard to the CFO, no matter how industrial-like it is.

Download Egil’s version of the Gauge

Click here to download the fancy gauge chart template. Thanks Egil for your idea. I think it is pimptastic.

Anyways, here is a fun challenge:

Download the gauge, and pimp it in your style. Take a screenshot, upload it somewhere and link it here. I want to see how you would pimp it.

And if you are furious to see a gauge chart on this blog, remember, and I am not making this up either, today is Friday. Have fun folks.

PS: yes, I am HUGE fan of Dave Barry, and no, I am not making this up.

Added later: Just to be clear, I think Egil‘s implementation is pretty cool and shows what is possible with excel.

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