Bad Bar Charts
Plain bar charts have been a staple of choice among data-visualization experts.  Many presenters or marketers tend to make fancy variants of bar charts in an attempt to “wow” their audiences. The results can make presentation professionals recoil in horror.
Jon Peltier wrote this informative and amusing blog post on one such bad bar chart. Here is an image of that chart:

Here is another amusing bad bar chart posted by Garr Reynolds in his Presentation Zen blog, with this image:

January 25, 2009
Tags: bad bar chart, clown chart, condom chart, dashboard, Excel, KPI Posted in: Charts

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