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Chart Selection Guide
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
In Chart Rules, As Simple as Possible, But Not Any Simpler!, More Information per Pixel! (the blog of XLCubed, the BonaVista Systems - MicroCharts parent company) has posted some comprehensive chart type selection guidelines, to follow up the recent brouhaha over pie and bar charts. It’s not inappropriate to repurpose a quotation from Einstein, because [...]
Posted: Monday, July 14th, 2008 under Chart Types, Charting Principles.
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Peltier Goes Bar Hopping
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
There has been a lot of discussion about pie charts and bar charts lately. I and many other know-it-alls have clearly stated that pie charts are the red-headed stepchildren in the family of chart types. In Peltier Loves Pie I provided some guidelines to follow if you still insist on using pie charts.
In this post [...]
Posted: Monday, July 14th, 2008 under Bad Charts, Chart Types, Charting Principles, Data Techniques, Example Charts, Statistics, VBA.
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