Archive for the ‘Bar / Column Charts’ Category

OK, maybe “love” is too strong a word. Let’s say that 3D column/bar charts are like a tall and ugly building: better appreciated from the top, where you can’t see it but you can enjoy a great view. Like this: Now, change the viewing angle, remove gaps

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Textures. 3D. Pie charts. Primary colors. Trends hidden behind labels. Backgrounds. Pie charts again. Clear signs of a bad chart, right? Right. It is so easy to spot a badly designed chart that you can use a computer to do it. Don’t waste your time. Let’s stop

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These are 10 basic tips for column and bar chart design: A column chart is not a skyline: if you can’t see the individual patterns, consider removing some series or create several smaller charts; If you are charting categorical data sort the columns; if there is more

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This chart [via Junk Charts] in the New York Times uses a “tornado” chart (a population pyramid-like chart) to display two series, advertising spending in measured (traditional media) and unmeasured (Internet…) channels. When discussing how to create population pyramids, I wrote that I don’t really like tornado

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