Chart Creativity 3

[BigInch]

If you'd like to see some creative chart types, this site has some very unique examples. Enjoy

https://sites.google.com/site/e90e50fx/home/creative-and-advanced-chart-design-in-excel

 

[IDS]

Thanks BigInch, I hadn't seen that one.

Another site that does some incredible stuff with Excel charts is:[link ]

http://www.excelhero.com/blogs/

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He spends too much time promoting his courses these days, but have a search (for optical illusions for instance) and you'll find some amazing chart work.


Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

 

[SkipVought]

Also check out John Walkenbach

http://www.j-walk.com.

His Excel Charts book is a great resource.

Skip,

_{Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance!}

 

[BUGGAR]

I'm sorry. I think those are silly. But I guess they are good for people that don't understand numbers?

Although I do like those curved bars, the ones that look like "bananas" pointing upwards. We used similar to describe attractive (edited).

 

[Denial]

I'm with Buggar on this (or, at least, with his first sentence).[ ] Most of the charts are just showy cleverness, intended to titillate the eyes rather than inform the brain.[ ] Engineering charts in particular should be guided by the KISS principle.

 

[BigInch]

I totally agree that these are not usually going to be appropriate for display of most engineering data, but if you sometimes have to give a presentation to a mixed finance / legal / hr audience you might score some points for creativity. If nothing else, they could are obviously useful as examples on how not to present engineering data. I liked the balls of yarn and the density displays, either of which represent their data clearly and are a little more imaginative than a steady diet of typical smatterings of boxes, circles and triangles.

ISD, SV, Thanks for the other links.

Use at your own risk.

 

[SkipVought]

Yea, if yer preparing charts for other engineer curmudgeons, you just want a standard chart.

But if yer trying to tell a story for certain management or the unwashed masses, you might want something a bit less blasé, which an engineer might on occasion need to stoop to.

Skip,

_{Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance!}

 

[BUGGAR]

Don't forget, we engineers know how to "present" chart data to say what we want it to say without gimmicks.

I always prepare my Budget Expenditure charts on log graphs so it looks like they're only increasing a little instead of exponentially.