Comments on: Good Charts Are Like Good Jokes http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/good-charts-are-like-good-jokes/ Effective Charts and Dashboards for Excel users Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jorge http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/good-charts-are-like-good-jokes/#comment-2122 Jorge Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:10:19 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-2122 Hi Melissa. I actually have your book, it was one for the first books I bought when I started blogging, about three years ago (November 7, 2006 - thanks Amazon...). Hi Melissa. I actually have your book, it was one for the first books I bought when I started blogging, about three years ago (November 7, 2006 – thanks Amazon…).

]]> By: melissa Spore http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/good-charts-are-like-good-jokes/#comment-2112 melissa Spore Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:37:14 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-2112 Hello! Thanks for quoteing my c0-author, Sally Bigwood, from the Tufte site. You might be interested in our book <i>Presenting Numbers, Tables & Charts </i> (Bigwood & Spore: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-860722-9) and her business web site, Plain Figures . Best, melissa Hello!
Thanks for quoteing my c0-author, Sally Bigwood, from the Tufte site. You might be interested in our book Presenting Numbers, Tables & Charts (Bigwood & Spore: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-860722-9) and her business web site, Plain Figures .

Best, melissa

]]> By: Jorge Camoes http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/good-charts-are-like-good-jokes/#comment-1330 Jorge Camoes Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:06:12 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-1330 Bill: Thanks. This is an obvious connection and I was surprised not getting any results when searching for "charts are like jokes". I should have tried "graphs" also. Bill: Thanks. This is an obvious connection and I was surprised not getting any results when searching for “charts are like jokes”. I should have tried “graphs” also.

]]> By: Bill http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/good-charts-are-like-good-jokes/#comment-1329 Bill Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:30:43 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1388#comment-1329 or after years of hard thinking I have concluded that graphs are like jokes: if you have to explain them they have failed. -- Sally Bigwood - found somewhere on http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index or

after years of hard thinking I have concluded that graphs are like jokes: if you have to explain them they have failed. — Sally Bigwood – found somewhere on http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index

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