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. [...]
January 25, 2009
Tags: bad bar chart, clown chart, condom chart, dashboard, Excel, KPI Posted in: Charts 
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Real-time Dashboards: Not Appropriate for Business
The marketing departments of “business intelligence dashboards” keep emphasizing that their dashboards give managers “real-time” or “up-to-the-minute” information on how their business is doing. They make it sound like a real benefit that all managers and business owners should appreciate. Don’t be fooled. At the lower levels of the organization, where people are responsible for [...]
January 25, 2009
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