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Peltier Loves Pie
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
Cynthia makes a mean cranberry-apple pie, and also a black bottom pie featuring a chocolate cookie crust, layers of chocolate and eggnog flavored pudding, and whipped cream. So you could accurately say that Peltier Loves Pie. But not pie charts.
There has been a lot of discussion about pie charts and bar charts lately. See for [...]
Posted: Sunday, July 13th, 2008 under Bad Charts, Chart Types, Charting Principles, Example Charts.
Comments: 3
On Seth Godin on Charts
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
In The three laws of great graphs, Seth Godin gave these three laws for great graphs:
1. One Story
2. No Bar Charts
3. Motion
In Bar graphs vs. Pie charts, Seth further explains his comments about bar charts:
[T]he purpose of a chart or graph is to make one point, vividly.
I commented on Seth’s three laws in [...]
Posted: Sunday, July 13th, 2008 under Chart Types, Charting Principles, Presentations.
Comments: 8
