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Effective Charts and Dashboards for Excel users

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Pie charts: a neverending discussion

We all know how found of pie charts Tufte is: A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart; the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them, for then the viewer is asked to compare quantities located in spatial disarray both

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Sort and proportions in bar charts

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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