The finalists and the winner of the bad graph contest are announced. ... Example of a 3D Bar Chart from Excel. Excel’s three-dimensional bar charts are common. Often, ...

This bad example of a sales chart is overwhelmed by too many fonts and text sizes, an overuse of graphics, distracting 3-D effects, poor color choices, and a cluttered background.

For example, the graph on the right below is not based on '0', and the length of the bar at Time point '2' appears to be about 3 times the length of the bar at '1', but it is actually about 1.6 ...

Have you seen other examples of "chart clutter"? Use the comments to share your thoughts. In addition, I welcome any questions on charts and graphs for inclusion in future blog posts.

Excel offers a wide variety of charts and graphs, each designed to help you uniquely visualize data. But choosing the right ...

A day of bad news in charts and graphs on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save. Cardiff Garcia. Published August 19 2010. Jump to comments section Print this page.

Can graphs be funny? That’s a silly question, as you’ve seen plenty of funny flowcharts, pie charts, and Venn diagrams, as well as other charts and graphs, made just for fun here already. But ...

Today on Marketplace.org we kick off a new regular feature for purposes of chewing on data. We’ll show you one economic chart or graph, and one paragraph of accompanying words for explanation ...