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 may [...]

Just one link today. . . Fancy Charts & Graphs, from The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz Thanks to Sjoerd Hoogwater for the link.

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 [...]

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 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.

Federico gives us this excellent example of a 3D pie chart, thanks to GraphJam.