Graphical approach to visualization
Ever sat through a series of boring presentations with awful graphs (Death by Powerpoint...)There are good tools around to produce graphs and charts. The defaults supplied by popular tools such as excel are not wonderful.
Googling for "chart better than excel" produces these:-
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
- Excel Chart Doctor
- Misconceptions About Charts and Graphs
- "... About 90% of the Excel 2003 chart gallery is junk ..."
- Bar charts are dramatically overrated ... should either be line/area charts ...
- There are 314 principles for good graphs and charts. But these three laws will take you far. The three laws of great graphs
- "... the reason you put a chart in a presentation is to tell a story. A single story, one story per chart ...
- Animate your charts ... create two slides. The first one shows where the data used to be, the second one, on the same axes, shows where it is or where it's going ...
- A guess is just a guess until you turn it into a pie chart. Then it's an analysis. -- Scott Adams, "Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of your Life
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