Excel Charting for Design Nerds
December 1st, 2008Alright, this isn’t a normal blog post (and its a fairly old link), but I thought this was a great example of using Excel’s charting capabilities for good, not evil. Well, maybe not necessarily good, but good design in an IW product set.
There have been a lot of times when I’ve had a client say, after a presentation, “How did you do that in [insert Office product here]?” In this case, I actually had to ask, “How did you do that?”
Recreating the NY Times Cancer Graph
The video (in Quicktime) is not short (and may not be exciting for people who don’t like making pretty graphs in Excel), but it is worth the watch.
Note: I realize this is my first post in 20 months. I will try harder, I promise.