Sparklines in Excel 2010 – why?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m looking forward to having spark/spike lines out of the box. In fact, I even asked for it!(See 3rd comment), and I think MS have done a bang up job (from what I’ve seen). But...
View ArticleDDOE Golf Charts, agian, agian
In Golf Charts Dick K posted some examples of charts he’d knocked up for his golf league, then in Golf Charts – Another Take, Tushar Mehta posted his take on the charts. In What would you do if a...
View ArticlePHD Pareto Analysis – agian
In PDH Pareto Analysis, Chandoo [Congrulations mate;-)))], shares with us a chart showing some pareto charting he was doing. This interested me because I didn’t get the chart. I’d like to open this up...
View ArticleThe Good and Bad of Bullet Graphs – again!
Mike Alexander said something interesting the other day and I thought I should let everyone know! Mike was taking about bullet graphs, not only how to make them in Excel, but actually about the really...
View Article3 Charts from Ubuntu
I’ve just upgraded to the latest and greatest Ubuntu release, and I thought I’d take a look at what the various spread sheets install with it can do. I’ve got 3 on my system;Â KSpread, oOO, and...
View ArticleSparklines News…
Following the recent excitement around Sparklines, it would have been easy to miss a little update to the excellent Sparklines for Excel add in. Fabrice has updated the way Paretos can be handled, and...
View ArticleQuickie: Colour Style of Bar Chart Bars
Just a quick one. I notice that I often apply a fade effect to the bars of my bar charts, to me it looks a bit nicer. With fade… Without fade… Its not too important, I think the options are: 1. Fade is...
View ArticleAdvances in Apples’ Charting
Today I was reading Apples Supplier Responsibility and saw this masterpiece of visual lies! The caption underneath the figure says “As of December 2009, Apple has audited 190 facilities located in...
View ArticleExcel Funnel Charts
Funnel charts don’t make sense. But if theres one thing we can all agree on then its that everyone else is stupid, well maybe not stupid, but not as smart as me and you, thats for sure ;-))). So people...
View ArticleIBM, the most insane charts ever seen?
Check this dashboard out, http://www-05.ibm.com/innovation/uk/leadership/insights/index.html, eneter a number in the box and the webpage will take you through to a dashboard. It’s the standard mixtue...
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