http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2006/04/13/3-d-charts/ a discussion of visual report design & web analytics Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:45:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2006/04/13/3-d-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Anonymous Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:56:00 +0000 http://www.blog.instantcognition.com/?p=20#comment-7 Seriously, what are people thinking. My biggest gripe is the thing I see most often - people who create fancy graphics because they can't come up with what the data actually means - and therefore don't have anything meaningful to say. But hey - if you have a pretty picture, who cares about the meaning. right? Seriously, what are people thinking. My biggest gripe is the thing I see most often - people who create fancy graphics because they can’t come up with what the data actually means - and therefore don’t have anything meaningful to say. But hey - if you have a pretty picture, who cares about the meaning. right?

]]> http://blog.instantcognition.com/visualization/2006/04/13/3-d-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Zach Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:33:00 +0000 http://www.blog.instantcognition.com/?p=20#comment-6 I couldn't agree more. 3D is chart-junk in its purest form. We are putting together on a little Excel plug-in that zaps all that extra ugliness that comes with most Excel charts -- including 3D if you've made that misstep. I couldn’t agree more. 3D is chart-junk in its purest form. We are putting together on a little Excel plug-in that zaps all that extra ugliness that comes with most Excel charts — including 3D if you’ve made that misstep.

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