Tag: Handelsblatt

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: [...]

We want to be able to measure the quality of reports. Today, we’ll go into detail. For example, how large, long and wide should graphical elements be? The quality measure "differentiation" answers this [...]