While playing with some county-level data, I stumbled upon what seem to be a secret message hidden in a bubble chart:
Just call me paranoid, but let me ask you this: what is a triangle doing there and why on Earth would the hole in the middle point exactly to Cook County IL, home of President Barak Obama? Isn’t that weird?
I decided to dig a little deeper and visited Cook County’s website and look what I have found in the home page:
A sophisticated device that looks like a dreadful pie chart!
Who could be using Excel charts to send secret messages? Are these charts connected, two pieces of a dangerous puzzle? What are their intentions? I must find out.
Someone is knocking on my door…
(Well, this is just another bug in Excel 2007… In my more serious next post I’ll answer this question: “Are traditional charts dying?”. Stay tuned!)
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yuk! to both, tushar-metha has a map chart on his site that will suit any BI situation