Archive for the ‘charting’ tag
How to lie beautifully with FusionCharts
Gotta love those three-dimensional charts. They sure are shiny! Look at this:

FusionCharts graphs
This is a screenshot of FusionCharts graphs. But wait, on closer inspection: 5 and 7 are the same height? 6 is exactly twice as tall as 2?
Pseudo-three-dimensional charts are the bane of my existence. Tufte would definitely not approve. (If you don’t have The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, you should really get it and give it a read.)





