Xaprb » charting http://www.xaprb.com/blog Stay curious! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:58:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to lie beautifully with FusionCharts http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/09/28/how-to-lie-beautifully-with-fusioncharts/ http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/09/28/how-to-lie-beautifully-with-fusioncharts/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:14:16 +0000 Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1310 Further Reading:]]> Gotta love those three-dimensional charts. They sure are shiny! Look at this:

FusionCharts graphs

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.)

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