In A Gauge Chart That Works?, Clint describes his efforts to come up with a dial-type chart that isn’t as terrible as most. He comments that Stephen Few’s Bullet Graphs are unfamiliar to most people, which is true, ans they’ve only been around for three or four years. Bullet graphs and most gauge-type charts are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In Ineffective Chart - Partition Chart, I discussed the partition chart that Chandoo spoke of in Partition Charts in Excel - alternative to pie charts [visualization hack]. I felt that the partition chart hid the data it was meant to present. Jorge Camoes remarked that it looked to him like the map of a fragmented [...]

In More graphical propaganda, Andrew Gelman of the Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog shows some pie charts of recent Kenyan election results which he got from John Sides’ blog post, Election Fraud in Kenya in The Monkey Cage blog. The charts are awful; as Andrew notes, the colors change and the [...]

In Partition Charts in Excel - alternative to pie charts [visualization hack], Chandoo offers a “partition chart” as an alternative to a pie chart. We all know pie charts are bad (don’t we???), so it’s good to look for alternatives. Here is part of Chandoo’s partition chart:

This chart uses conditional formatting to achieve the mottled [...]

In Bad Graphics - Stacked Pyramid Chart, I critiqued a popular infographic display type, the pyramid chart. In this post I will repeat the favor for funnel charts. These are not the funnel charts which are also called tornado charts, and in some circles are used to construct population pyramids (see Tornado Charts and Tornado [...]

I was directed to the web site for UberBI after reading The Uber Art of Dashboards on the Dashboards by Example blog. I want to say a few words about this chart, a stacked pyramid, which is featured prominently on one of UberBI’s displays.

Stacked Pyramid Chart
I occasionally read the Dashboards by Example blog, although I [...]

Whenever I am faced with a 3D chart I think of the song lyric I’ve used as the title of this post, taken from Pardon Me by Incubus. I also think of the following chart, which was submitted by thiswasmyclone to the b3ta challenge: graphs. (I didn’t add a hyperlink, because I didn’t want to [...]