A fluff display for a fluff survey? Perhaps you’re right. What I did get out of it, was I used the original large graphic as an opportunity to learn how the OCR piece of MODI (Microsoft Office Document something) worked. And I noticed I had to correct a bunch of misspellings in the text of the graphic. “Goverment” is the one that came up again and again.

It would be a tragedy if good and meaningful data were lost in a chart like this.

However, it’s more of a comedy when such soft, feel-good data from a self-serving opinion survey is presented in such pretty but puzzling form. This chart format really is inherently more interesting than the results being presented here.

Consider: by a 7:2 margin, these nonrandom respondents for the world admit to placing a higher rather than lower priority on climate change than the general public. What next? A survey of largely Microsoft employees to see if they believe Vista users should switch to Windows 7 instead of Snow Leopard?

No tough questions were presented in that chart. No “will you support Greenhouse gas regulations even if they triple your electricity and petrol expenses and send more jobs overseas?” No mention of nuclear power, just currently much less large scale cost effective wind and solar power . [Disclaimer -- I considered Penn & Teller's show on nuclear power as a green alternative both entertaining and informative, while I found this chart mostly just entertaining. Informative only in the sense of learning about worst practices in charting, as I believe Jon intended.]

Thanks to FireFox’s firebug plugin, I noticed within the associated CSS file that the width of your “div” named “wrap” was set to 1060px.

#wrap {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#333333;
margin:0 auto;
width:1060px;
}

Please lower width to 1010px and it will fit perfectly on laptops like mine.

And as with newspapers, if I print these charts out they are perfect for wrapping my 3D fish and chips up with.

Thanks for the wonderful advice Jon.