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Chamber of Horrors

The following examples are included in the Chamber of Horrors:


			Rings Such Torus-like shapes in pseudo-3D are nice to look at, but really not very useful. More...

			Circles They are closely related to rings and pies – and of equally little use. More...

			Pies These are a 3D version of circles – often including little pieces of pie, gracefully floating more or less float in space. More...

			Spiders From the outset, these are not everyone’s cup of tea. And they are almost never the chart type of choice. More...

			Spaghettis Spaghettis (or slides) is the name given to particularly creatively designed line charts. More...

			Lies The term used to describe all charts with cut axes or truncated data series is lie charts. More...

			Brutal Charts This name might sound a bit harsh. But it is annoying when the form crushes the content. More...

			Dashboard Horrors Also known as cockpits, these overview visualizations often contain more than just a few absurdities – from steering wheels to gauges and on to visualizations of numbers in the form of barometers and thermometers. More...

Consulting > Reports > Charts > Circles :-(

And now to our Chamber of Horrors for: . Dashboards :-( . Mobile Dashboards :-( . Charts :-( . Brutal graphs :-( in particular: . Rings :-( . Circles :-( . Pies :-( . Spiders :-( . Spaghettis :-( . Lies :-( . Strips :-)	More and more business reports putting a lot of effort into transforming the reality behind the figures into circles or pie wedges, torus shapes, spider charts, rings, and other graphic displays equally ill-suited for quick comprehension. Unfortunately, the case is no different at many major companies either: The following is a random selection of what shareholders have to put up with: decoration instead of information... ...and the winner is... Source: AXIIS

	"Multi-pie" to get around the low level of information density of a pie chart: The area here is proportional to market size, the dark section represents own sales, in other words, the market share. This is one of the few meaningful applications of pie charts...

	Roambi This iPhone app looks nice – but it is not a good visualization of this type of simple data. In this instance, a classic comparison of bars would be understood faster and better.

	Xcelsius An excerpt taken from a proposed dashboard. A pie chart like this is bad enough – but what about this legend?! Here you will find further examples. Xcelsius from BO or SAP is an interesting product, but I unfortunately could not find any convincing examples on SAP’s website. graphomate is one of the Excelsius solutions we have certified and it is certainly worth a closer look (RH).

	MLP 2006 Business Report Of all types of circle charts, this one is probably the least suited...

	Fresenius 2006 Annual Report (German) Circles, even when visually well presented, do not suit this award-winning report...

	Novartis 2006 Annual Report The title was left out here: What is this chart supposed to visualize? Here is the link.

	tamedia Initial Public Offering, page 30 Three circles don't make things any better...

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