Stephen Few's last couple of blog entries have been devoted to nominees for The Graph Hall of Shame.
By sharing really bad examples of graph design, Few hopes to illustrate ineffective graph design practices and hopefully embarrass the vendors that create them to pay more attention to what they show their customers (much like the service performed by Web Pages that Suck!).
The first nominee, a line plot lifted from some old Business Objects user documentation, has a number of problems, not the least of which is a rather odd arrangement of months in alphabetical order along the x-axis - i.e., Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb, etc.
Few's second nominee, a bar chart found on iDashboards, is also x-axis-challenged, labeling only every other state on the x-axis, leaving it up to the viewer to guess which state follows Maine alphabetically.
Can't wait to see more!
