All this discussion about pie charts lately reminded me of one of my favorite pie charts. This comes from back in the day, when I was still working in Corporate America. Actually it was fairly early in my career, when I was just getting used to the concept of reductions in force and downsizing. We [...]

One recent morning I saw something interesting while reviewing my web site stats. I usually check the search phrases that have sent visitors to my web site, and there are always the same old terms, like Excel charts, install an Excel add-in, Excel error bars, etc. Well, on this recent morning, I saw the phrase [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.