Comments on: Whatever 25 May 2009

By: Martín

Martín — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:24:55 +0000

Jon,

I’ve just saw Bill Gates’ video. Impressive approach, and quite simple.No wonder why he’s such a visionaire…

By: Martín

Martín — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:02:22 +0000

Thanks Jon ! actually, by the time i got your reply, my brain already started up, and figured that out. quite impressive chart, and really, really simple !

A good story to tell…

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:51:13 +0000

Martin -

You mean the Olympic Medal bar chart? The total series in on the primary axis and its gap width is 50%, the individual medals on the secondary, I’ve added the secondary category axis, and I’ve removed the secondary value axis.

By: Martín

Martín — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:11:05 +0000

Jon,

as dumb as I may seem, I have to ask: how did you get to make that chart? I need to do something similar, and clearly have no idea on how to do so.

Would it be too much to ask you to share the file, or briefly tell me how to create the chart? I am using Excel 2003, with no add-ons.

Thanks !!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:54:36 +0000

I don’t mind a little chart ink used to make a chart attractive, as long as you don’t gussy it all up.

By: Tom Gonzalez

Tom Gonzalez — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:46:53 +0000

well, it could be dialed into be a more “pure” data viz and really maximize the chart-ink –> info ratio. but yes, it was probably about 50 characters of code to change across three XML attribute properties.