Blog: Stephen Few: The Graph Hall of Shame

On the subject of graphs, here's some funny stuff -

"Last, but not least, the sequence of months along the X-axis is a rather creative way to display time. I can't think of any situation in which an alphabetical arrangement of months would make sense. "

Blog: Stephen Few: The Graph Hall of Shame: "I thought that it would be fun to use this blog as a forum for sharing really bad examples of graph design, especially examples found on the Web sites or in the user documentation of business intelligence vendors. This serves two purposes: 1) It illustrates ineffective graph design practices, to help you learn what to avoid, and 2) it hopefully embarrasses the vendor that created the graph enough to pay more attention to what they show their customers as examples of graph-based communication. I'll share fresh examples from time to time, but please feel free to send me examples that you've found as well, which I can then share with the other readers of this blog. You can send examples directly to me at sfew@perceptualedge.com."