Choosing a Good Chart

[Grand Design]

Since we're all fans of chart porn here*, I thought I'd share this link that was emailed to me by a coworker.  It's a chart about .. charts.  Feel free to use.

Choosing a Good Chart.



* Except Stray.

[Yegolev]

The chart of charts is something that I could really use.






Sadly, I am not joking.  Previously this information about charts was scattered in various places, but now it is all in one easy-to-understand graphical format.

[stray]

Man, I'm fucking dyslexic with charts. No fan at all!

[Samwise]

Yo dawg, I heard you like charts, so...

[Grand Design]

Yeah, this is just to get you hooked.  Then I break out the expensive charts with names like Hawaiian Histogram.

[MahrinSkel]

I'm just going to jump this thread ahead to the money shot.

--Dave

[Grand Design]

Holy shit.  I brought Heineken and you brought Dom.

[Righ]

I'm just going to jump this thread ahead to the money shot.

I'm not clicking on that. I assume it's Sir Bruce yiffing in a furpile?

[Grand Design]

On second thought, a lot of those charts are obviously the work of people with too much time on their hands.  Chart porn gone too far - chart porn snuff films.

Don't click.

[UnSub]

I clicked. Then mouseovered to my heart's content. Some of those charts are a lot more exotic than I'd ever use, but that's the entire point of looking at such sites on the internet, right? 

[apocrypha]

My new goal in life is to give a presentation that uses every single one of those chart types. Hope I manage to get re-enrolled in college next year

[Yegolev]

I'm just going to jump this thread ahead to the money shot.

I never knew a Pie Chart would bind so strongly to a Cartoon.  I'm getting some great ideas, even though I don't understand how a chart might have valences.

[Nebu]

You're not a real nerd until you successfully employ venn diagrams in your presentation!

[Yegolev]

Well, I do have to consider my audience.  This is actually something that has, this week, helped me to turn into a real-life Rageguy.

[Strazos]

You're not a real nerd until you successfully employ venn diagrams in your presentation!

Hurr, I think I actually did once. Don't ask me when.

Some of those look to be completely made up.. Made up, as in....no real use? I dunno, they're all "made up," but I think you know what I mean.

[Viin]

I really like the Iceberg chart, I think I'm going to use that in every one of my project documents.

Edit: Actually, if anyone knows of a good way to show project resource allocation vs project size/important I'd love to put one together!

[apocrypha]

Make a stick man chart.

Height of stick man = resources allocated.
Size of stick man's balls = project importance.

[Viin]

Like this?

[Yegolev]

I was going to check out some pivots, but the stick-man one is clearly easier to understand and, I feel, conveys the proper sense of urgency inherent in very important projects while simultaneously making overfunded garbage apparent.

[Ingmar]

I'm just going to jump this thread ahead to the money shot.

I'm not clicking on that. I assume it's Sir Bruce yiffing in a furpile?

Why did I have to read this, why! I need a smiley gouging its eyes out to convey my feelings.

[apocrypha]

Like this?

Haha that works better than I anticipated