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Archive for Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Ineffective Chart - Partition Chart Revisited (Defragged)
by Jon Peltier
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In Ineffective Chart - Partition Chart, I discussed the partition chart that Chandoo spoke of in Partition Charts in Excel - alternative to pie charts [visualization hack]. I felt that the partition chart hid the data it was meant to present. Jorge Camoes remarked that it looked to him like the map of a fragmented [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 10th, 2008 under Bad Charts, Charting Principles.
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Re: Graphical Propaganda
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
In More graphical propaganda, Andrew Gelman of the Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog shows some pie charts of recent Kenyan election results which he got from John Sides’ blog post, Election Fraud in Kenya in The Monkey Cage blog. The charts are awful; as Andrew notes, the colors change and the [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 10th, 2008 under Bad Charts, Chart Axes, Chart Types, Charting Principles, Example Charts.
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Line Charts vs. XY Charts
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
In Line-XY Combination Charts I showed how to make a combination Line-XY chart. It is probably important to discuss the differences between line charts and XY charts. The documentation is not clear, and the names of the chart types are not helpful; in fact, they lead to confusion.
The icons in the Chart Type dialog and [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 10th, 2008 under Chart Axes, Chart Types, Charting Principles.
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