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 [...]

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 [...]

Information has to be fluctuation-proof – especially when it deals with risk: Oftentimes, people who produce information today are new in the office, new at doing it, or only do it sporadically. And [...]

Stock market in the daily newspaper is tricky. Because: The prices are from yesterday. There are new ones today. And tomorrow. What's important? Mood? Yesterday's? Exact index level? Change? Absolute? [...]

Sometimes we´ve got little data. Which can be counted with just four paws. It´s good to show that. As in the Wall Street Journal. 52 economists were ask where they expect the next bubble to emerge in [...]

Today it’s getting didactic. I did some cutting. Source: Handelsblatt, April 30th 2009, no. 83, p. 1, redesign by me. Click for original. Graphic displays increase of highway transportation in billions [...]

Tax revenues collapse. Tells us the Handelsblatt. He thinks, 9 percent minus and collapse don't go together. I read the article, too. And nearly collapsed: Perceptive priority not understood. Once again: [...]

I want quality measures for information. And today, we’ll take a closer look at one of them. A mere observation shows that many graphical elements are grossly exaggerated. That’s why we’ll show [...]