http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/dont-try-to-be-creative-grumpy-old-mans-guide-to-making-charts/ Effective Charts and Dashboards for Excel users Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/dont-try-to-be-creative-grumpy-old-mans-guide-to-making-charts/#comment-24193 Anatomy of a Bad Chart Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:47:40 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1376#comment-24193 [...] 40% on the right I'll assume that the slice is growing. But apparently its the other way around. Conventions work. Stick to them if you don't have a good reason to break [...] [...] 40% on the right I'll assume that the slice is growing. But apparently its the other way around. Conventions work. Stick to them if you don't have a good reason to break [...]

]]> http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/dont-try-to-be-creative-grumpy-old-mans-guide-to-making-charts/#comment-1331 John Johnson Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:53:08 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1376#comment-1331 I wholeheartedly agree with the post. Sometimes, the most heroic use of creativity comes from using the rules to make something extraordinary. I think the term "misplaced" is apt here; the creativity should be going into displaying the data (and perhaps some summary or possible inference) in a clear way so that more people will grasp the story behind the data rather than doctoring up a chart to prove to the world that you can click a button (or even use Illustrator). I wholeheartedly agree with the post. Sometimes, the most heroic use of creativity comes from using the rules to make something extraordinary. I think the term “misplaced” is apt here; the creativity should be going into displaying the data (and perhaps some summary or possible inference) in a clear way so that more people will grasp the story behind the data rather than doctoring up a chart to prove to the world that you can click a button (or even use Illustrator).

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