Tag: Wirtschaftswoche

If you don’t have much to say, you don’t need to use a whole bunch of words – or cups for that matter. An example from the German magazine ‘Wirtschaftswoche’ shows us why. The following [...]

Symbols are difficult. In most cases they don't work. Some of them have to be learnt. It takes longer than reading something you already know - e.g. a word. Awkward symbols make me sad. The arrow is [...]

Again. My law of proportion. The idea of a chart is: Display proportions between values with proportions of length. Proportional. Proportional. Proportional. You can ignore it. You can also lick out an [...]

Graphics lie in many ways. Last week, German journal Wirtschaftswoche favored fudging with time scales. Three times in one issue alone. Indeed statistics are notoriously inaccurate. Often incomplete [...]