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4D stacked column chart, Excel -> R

3 messages · waeltlmi@fh-albsig.de, Hadley Wickham

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A stacked barchart is a bad idea.  A 3d barchart is a very bad idea. 
A stacked 3d barchart is a very very bad idea.

Why?  Because it is very difficult to compare numbers.  In a stacked
bar chart you can only really compare the total, and the number in the
lowest bar.  In a 3d barchart you can only compare values in the same
row (distorting perspective + occlusion).

If you want to display you data in a interpretible way, I would
suggest a dotchart, carefully broken down to emphasise the comparisons
you want.

Hadley
On 2/27/06, waeltlmi at fh-albsig.de <waeltlmi at fh-albsig.de> wrote: