Visual analogies
Many a startling faux pas in graphics start with the desire to
Axis
The trouble with two lines
It's never a good idea to put two scales on
Loss aversion
Loss aversion manifests itself in chart-making, as it does in economics.
Lining things up
Guess where I went for vacation (clue in the chart).
This long,
Olympic tallies
Andrew N., a reader from Australia, wasn't too impressed with
The dog ate the margins
In his column on automated polls versus traditional telephone polls, the Numbers