The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method

Stephen Few's Bullet Graphs

Stephen Few designed the Bullet Graph, a clean, effective way to display measurements vs. goals - particularly useful for marketing performance measures.

More on his blog, Visual Business Intelligence.

Chart selector - in Japanese

Thank you to Miki Eto, a web marketing consultant and engineer based in Japan, who has translated the Chart Selector into Japanese. A pdf version is here.

Chart selector - in Portuguese

Prof. Kenneth Corrêa in Brazil has kindly translated the Chart Selector into Portuguese. Here it is:

Great chart examples

A comment by Zach from Juice Analytics motivated me to post links to two great sites that show what an enormous variety of good chart options exist out there. The first is Michael Friendly's Gallery of Data Visualization, and the second is Kelly O'Day's www.processtrends site. I recommend both.

Choosing a good chart

Here's something we came up with to help you consider which chart to use. It was inspired by the table in Gene Zelazny's classic work Saying It With Charts (p. 27 in the 4th. ed).

Download pdf

Download choosing_a_good_chart.pdf