Comments on: Inconsequential Foreplay http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/inconsequential-foreplay/ 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: Jon Peltier http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/inconsequential-foreplay/#comment-1230 Jon Peltier Mon, 18 May 2009 12:26:47 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1055#comment-1230 Junkcharts covered this in <a href="http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2009/05/supplemental-reading.html" rel="nofollow">Supplemental Reading</a>. Not only do bubbles stink (re Eddie Murphy's quip in "Trading Places"*) but the interaction in this chart was gratuitous and actually detracted from making meaningful comparisons, because only one bank's information was visible at a time. * The homeless Eddie Murphy was given a bubble bath by some wealthy individuals, and he said that the only way he ever had a bubble bath when he grew up was related to flatulence in the tub. Junkcharts covered this in Supplemental Reading.

Not only do bubbles stink (re Eddie Murphy’s quip in “Trading Places”*) but the interaction in this chart was gratuitous and actually detracted from making meaningful comparisons, because only one bank’s information was visible at a time.

* The homeless Eddie Murphy was given a bubble bath by some wealthy individuals, and he said that the only way he ever had a bubble bath when he grew up was related to flatulence in the tub.

]]> By: jeffrey weir http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/inconsequential-foreplay/#comment-1229 jeffrey weir Mon, 18 May 2009 01:19:13 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1055#comment-1229 “Always using bar charts is like always using missionary position. It might be more practical, but it gets boring!” - Not if you change parters a lot. “Always using bar charts is like always using missionary position. It might be more practical, but it gets boring!” – Not if you change parters a lot.

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