segunda-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2019

Comparisons

Using pie or donut charts for comparisons is still common in business communication as we can see below. 



The same data in a single bar chart helps understanding more easily.
By the way the chart below was made with chart-me.com, an easy to use online tool. 





And the following chart I don't understand. Maybe someone could help me explaining the meaning. 

quarta-feira, 20 de novembro de 2019

News from chart-me.com

chart-me.com keeps growing with new promissing chart features, although not yet available...


Bullet graph columns bars


and off course it will be worth waiting for Area, Bubble and Scatter chart types....


chart-me.com


SOLID | OUTLINED | HATCHED (BOOK)

SOLID | OUTLINED | HATCHED (BOOK)

now worldwide available in english....



https://www.ibcs.com/product/solid-outlined-hatched-book/







terça-feira, 1 de outubro de 2019

Symbols and measures in financial reporting

In their digression 2.8 to chapter 2 of their book “ Filled, outlined, hatched”,  Hichert&Faisst write about some exciting forms of visualizations for measures and indicators in financial reporting.
Indeed this is still a vast area for future development and could be generally accepted like for example the use of symbols in thematical maps.



As suggested by  Hichert$Faisst turnover could be represented by a Ʌ, the cost by V and the result by something like Ꜻ or ˄˅.   

Especially on a international level business communication could be substantially improved.












The german version can be found here:




www.ibcs.com

https://books.google.de/books/about/Gef%C3%BCllt_gerahmt_schraffiert.html?id=yAfBvgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://www.amazon.de/Gef%C3%BCllt-gerahmt-schraffiert-Einheitlichkeit-Pr%C3%A4sentationen-ebook/dp/B07RFQ7S1L


domingo, 22 de setembro de 2019

Why the CHECK rule of IBCS is important....

Sharpie makes the difference





Some chart examples



The following charts follow in a good way the priniple of information density presenting various thematical aspects on one page. On the other hand shows some deficiencies regarding the scaling and time and structure rules of IBCS. The chart on the right side is also a time presentation and thus should be shown in a time series as the left chart. For better understanding the percentages could be placed in the left chart building a combination chart. Or even above the area chart using a line chart for example. Thus all the page width could be used as for example shown in the chart at the bottom.
The most problematical visualization point is that scaling is obviously totally neglected. All 4 area charts deal with number of services and vary from 100 000 to 25 million service calls. In order to see the real situation the charts should show the vast differences by using a correct scaling.




The following chart is much better because it follows the rules of correct scaling.
And thus beyond being impressive also becomes reliable. 
For better orientation it could have been helpful to mark the year when the uninterrupted population increase started. 




domingo, 11 de agosto de 2019