With the last version he was swearing. Now it's my turn with the new version. Excel 2013 has a serious failure. As all Excels before. In the chart assistant. That one cuts the feet of columns and bars [...]

Symbols for worse. I said that once. Everybody understands that. Have a look. Source: The German magazine „Auto, Motor und Sport“, Nr. 14/2013, page 5. Thumbs up is good. Thumbs down is bad. Especially [...]

The German magazine "Focus" has counted: How many small children live in cities. How many kindergarten places are there. How many children do need a kindergarten place. How many do not have one. Or how [...]

Poor tyres brake poorly. And need more fuel. Says the ADAC, the German motoring club. And has drawn a picture. With car and road markings. So you can see the differences in braking. Good idea. Measured [...]

It is getting more and more difficult to fly. For example in Zurich. Departure screen at the airport Zurich. Red means: Go to gate. Green means: Boarding. Funny. Imagine you are in a hurry. But not [...]

I scolded the German newspaper “Handelsblatt”. Two years ago. Because it drew wannabe sparklines. That is scribbling that wants to look like sparklines. Have a look. Source: handelsblatt.com/4066396 [...]

Religion again. We had that last time. Often, such data is scaled like that. Have a look. Data from the FASZ, 2013-03-10, page 22. Redesign: me. Scaled globally. You might think scaling is fair [...]

The German Sunday newspaper „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“ knows about the members of all religions. Back in 1900. Today. Between. Have a look. Source: FASZ, 2013-03-10, page 22. Market [...]

Oracle has painted: How satisfied are people with customer support? Have a look. Source: Oracle. Found at crmmanager.de. From myself as a collage, from Oracle as stripes. Click to enlarge. I [...]

The German newspaper “Die Welt” has baked yet again: triple pies with bites taken out. Have a look. Source: “Die Welt”, 2013-01-17, page 13. Have a look at the axes: ounces is weight [...]

We have ranted about annual reports – him and me. About those from E.ON, vodafone, Sparkasse Nürnberg, Telekom and Teambank. Because good was painted red because of the CI. Because time was to be read [...]

Mr. Bron’s teeter-totter again. They were supposed to show absolute numbers. They were supposed to show percent. At the same time. For many things at the same time. Man, woman, child. First class, second [...]

Last year the downfall of the world was supposed to happen. It didn’t. But the Titanic fell down. Not last year, but one hundred years ago. Jan has painted graphics and charts about it. Last year. Mr [...]

The German newspaper “Handelsblatt” likes double rows. Lots of data is shown for every share of the DAX. And a colorful logo. The data doesn’t fit in one row. Therefore the “Handelsblatt” uses [...]

It is funny with the cash box of the TeamBank. This year there are 123.628 euro. And 61 cents. Last year there was only 53. I was puzzled. And then learned: left side euro, right side thousand euro. I [...]

The graphic is bad: to understand it, I had to read the whole article. The article though was good: car companies are banks. They give money to the car drivers. The car drivers buy cars with the money [...]

It is difficult to compare time series. Indexing can help. Can be calculated in one way or the other. Equal with all: Everything is compared with the same point in time. It  has to be chosen carefully [...]

“Die Welt” has drawn a graphic table. The "Süddeutsche Zeitung" draws some every day. But with ash. Have a look. Source: "Die Welt", 2012-10-24, page 13. Normally I bitch very very very [...]

Sometimes we drive with the company car. That is funny. First of all, he looks to the front. Where the tacho is. Also, the handbrake sign is illuminated there. Handbrake is illuminated within the dashboard. Then [...]

The German newspaper “Die Welt” has baked again: circle pies. Have a look. Source: Die Welt, 2012-09-17, page 13. I cut a pizza like the gas pie. Everybody wanted to have the blue piece. Okay [...]

Drawing pie charts often goes wrong. He thinks so too and has gathered a few bad examples. There was a new type in the German newspaper “Die Welt”. Have a look. Source: “Die Welt”, 2012-04-25. One [...]

I have been on vacation. Where lemons grow. On the tree. One was sick. Source: Gerd’s lemon, my picture. I wanted to help. With a medicine for lemons. Not so easy. Have a look. Quelle: Cyperfor [...]

Here is what I always wanted to address: Where do you place the description of the bars in a bar chart? Before the bars? Behind the bars? Next to the bars? Underneath the bars? Above the bars? Have a [...]

Lera* says: Us Europeans write from left to right. That is also how we imagine time. Earlier is left. Later is right. Arabs write from right to left. Earlier is right. Later is left. Aborigines draw [...]

Maps and values is difficult. Doing it carelessly, it is getting too difficult. Source: "Die Welt", 2012-03-30, page 10. Look at the numbers: once in the column, another time above. Look at the [...]

Do you remember? The colors of the cars? With the spaghetti chart? We tiled the spaghetti. And re-tiled. Today we cook lasagna. Registration of new cars by colors, in percent. What do we see? [...]

The dog of Jun Hao Hung says, Germany wins. Against the Netherlands. And anyway. Quelle: Facebook, Jun Hao Hung The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says, Spain wins. Against Germany [...]