Comments on: New Feature: The Chart Doctor http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/new-feature-the-chart-doctor/ Peltier Tech Excel Charts and Programming Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:43:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Original Chart Doctor « Charts & Graphs http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/new-feature-the-chart-doctor/comment-page-1/#comment-15163 The Original Chart Doctor « Charts & Graphs Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:11:16 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2101#comment-15163 [...] 6/12/09, 21 months after I introduced Excel Chart Doctor, Chandoo and Jon Peltier announce that they are adding a Chart Doctor feature to their [...] [...] 6/12/09, 21 months after I introduced Excel Chart Doctor, Chandoo and Jon Peltier announce that they are adding a Chart Doctor feature to their [...]

]]> By: Thom Mitchell http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/new-feature-the-chart-doctor/comment-page-1/#comment-15089 Thom Mitchell Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:30:58 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2101#comment-15089 Happy five-oh, Jon! I hope it's a good one with family all 'round! Happy five-oh, Jon! I hope it’s a good one with family all ’round!

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/new-feature-the-chart-doctor/comment-page-1/#comment-15088 Jon Peltier Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:29:33 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2101#comment-15088 David - Thanks, that's an appropriately bad chart. We'll get right on it. David -

Thanks, that’s an appropriately bad chart. We’ll get right on it.

]]> By: DMurphy http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/new-feature-the-chart-doctor/comment-page-1/#comment-15082 DMurphy Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:07:34 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2101#comment-15082 Great idea! If you are looking for an early contender, here's one which came in to my wife from her Pension company this week showing (or at least attempting to show) the make-up of her investments. http://www.box.net/shared/goynhfo7zb There is a scan of the company charts and an Excel sheet with the data to save you having to type it up again. For my tuppence worth (read 2-cents in the US), my first thoughts were: The primary Asset Category is not defined in the chart - this would be of key importance to me - to see the split of Bonds to Equities to Other - the chart loses this entirely The TopTen chart just should not be there - it adds nothing to the data - in fact, it confuses the reader. I look forward to seeing your, Chandoo's and your readers comments - perhaps we canstart shaming these "professionals" into providing meaningful information. Great idea!
If you are looking for an early contender, here’s one which came in to my wife from her Pension company this week showing (or at least attempting to show) the make-up of her investments. http://www.box.net/shared/goynhfo7zb
There is a scan of the company charts and an Excel sheet with the data to save you having to type it up again. For my tuppence worth (read 2-cents in the US), my first thoughts were:
The primary Asset Category is not defined in the chart – this would be of key importance to me – to see the split of Bonds to Equities to Other – the chart loses this entirely
The TopTen chart just should not be there – it adds nothing to the data – in fact, it confuses the reader.
I look forward to seeing your, Chandoo’s and your readers comments – perhaps we canstart shaming these “professionals” into providing meaningful information.

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