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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...

Management Reports > Charts > Rings :-(

And now to our Chamber of Horrors for: . Dashboards :-( . Mobile Dashboards :-( . Charts :-( . Brutal graphs :-( in particular: . Rings :-( . Circles :-( . Pies :-( . Spiders :-( . Spaghettis :-( . Lies :-( . Strips :-)	In an increasing number of annual reports a great deal of effort is being put into transforming the reality behind the figures into circles or pie wedges, spider charts, rings, and other graphic visualizations which are 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: threeDgraphics
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	Source: Bundeshaushalt 2012 Rings are not a particularly appropriate form of graphical analysis concentric rings don’t make things any better. If the labeling of the segments is only visible upon mouse-over, as is the case here, the headline also is missing. Before-and-after example no. 5 shows how to do things better according to HICHERT®SUCCESS.

	PWC Source: Annual Report 2010 And here PWC shows six rings at once...

	Source: Dundas

	Roche Source: 2008 Annual Report

	The suggested solution for the 2008 Roche Annual Report recommends a bar chart with absolute and percentage annual comparison. Here is the Excel solution to this suggestion based on Excel Examples no. 401 and 403.

	Allianz Group Source: 2006 Annual Report 2006, page 98

	Deutsche Bank Source: 2006 Annual Report

	K+S Source: 2006 Business Report

	Salzgitter AG Source: 2006 Business Report

	Salzgitter AG Source: 2006 Business Report

	Fraport Source: 2006 Business Report Here the reader has to spend a lot of time trying to figure out this chart - an oversight or intentional?

	Fraport Source: 2006 Business Report

	Fraport Source: 2006 Business Report Just try to understand this analysis...

	DaimlerChrysler Source: 2006 Annual Report

	DaimlerChrysler Source: 2006 Annual Report Here five rings at once...

	PWC Source: 2010 Annual Report And here we have PWC - with six rings at once.

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