Archive for 'Amusement'
The Downside of Working in a Cubicle
by Jon Peltier
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Last weekend I transferred my email to a new system in the cloud (did I really just say “in the cloud”??) and I came across an old email from my last “real” job. That was my only job ever where I worked in a cubicle, and it was awful for that and for so many [...]
Posted: Friday, July 16th, 2010 under Amusement.
Comments: 4
John Walkenbach’s Lime Crop
by Jon Peltier
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Excel author extroardinaire and amateur banjoist John Walkenbach describes this year’s Lime Crop this weekend in The J-Walk Blog. I’ve reproduced John’s chart below.
In a completely unwarranted statement, John snidely wondered how long until I criticized his chart.
Posted: Monday, November 23rd, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 12
Spike in Blog Traffic
by Jon Peltier
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Yesterday morning when I checked my blog traffic, I noticed a large spike in page views on the previous day, Wednesday. My blog traffic has been steadily rising since the end of summer, but this was an unusually large increase for a single day. It was around 1000 page views higher than Tuesday, and 1400 [...]
Posted: Friday, November 20th, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 6
Pie Charts Must Die
by Jon Peltier
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Just a quick public service announcement. A fellow whose twitter name is wiesel started a twibbon group called Pie Charts Must Die. If you join (click on the last link), your twitter avatar will display your support for this worthy cause.
Posted: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 6
Copy and Paste Charts at Zooms other than 100%
by Jon Peltier
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This is an entry for John Walkenbach’s Excel Oddities page, or perhaps for Bob Umlas’ next This Isn’t Excel, It’s Magic! book. I filed it under “Amusement”, becausse I didn’t know where else to put it. When you copy and paste charts in Excel 2003 and earlier when the window isn’t zoomed to 100%, you [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: none
Interesting Link for 10-April-2009
by Jon Peltier
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Just one link today. . .
Fancy Charts & Graphs, from The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz
Thanks to Sjoerd Hoogwater for the link.
Posted: Friday, April 10th, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 2
Pie Chart for Pi Day
by Jon Peltier
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It’s a week early for Pi Day (next Saturday, 3/14), but Dilbert has provided us with a nice pie chart.
It does illustrate the unnatural popularity of the genre, don’t you think?
Original at Dilbert comic strip for 03/07/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.
Thanks to Dermot, who emailed this to me moments before I saw [...]
Posted: Saturday, March 7th, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 4
Stick a Chart in it
by Jon Peltier
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Like me, you probably spent years scribbling all manner of pointless line graphs and bar art at school, but you’ll now find it tough to rule two lines, plot some points, and stick a best-fit curve through the whole merry lot without making it look like a car crash in flatland.
So says Nick Cernis in [...]
Posted: Friday, February 20th, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 2
Paper Pie Charts?
by Jon Peltier
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In Paper-Based Pie Chart Graphs, the information aesthetics blog shows a pie chart that isn’t printed on paper, but is actually fabricated out of paper. It came from Paper Graphs, on Nicholas O’Leary’s knolleary blog. This seems to be more a work of art than a chart, so maybe it’s okay.
Posted: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 under Amusement.
Comments: 5
3D Pie Charts
by Jon Peltier
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Federico gives us this excellent example of a 3D pie chart, thanks to GraphJam.
Posted: Friday, November 21st, 2008 under Amusement.
Comments: 11

















