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Highlighting Customer Profitability
A user recently asked us for ideas on showing profitability by customer. Here are a couple of examples that go beyond the basic bar chart. The first is a stacked cascade chart that shows that a small...
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You can use different series in a Bar Mekko to make your point more clearly and make it easier to differentiate with color. In this chart about tennis players we used the Wimbledon colors and a legend...
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How Important is Web Services to Amazon?
Did Amazon create a massive retail business just to scale its cloud infrastructure? While this is not very plausible, Amazon’s latest quarterly results point to the potential of Web Services to be...
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Strategic Use of Color
We like to explore ways in which color helps to emphasize the key message on a chart. Here are a couple of ideas for how you can use color strategically in a Marimekko or Bar Mekko. In the Marimekko,...
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Common Coloring for Cascades
We have seen lots of examples of Cascade charts that use color to highlight increases and decreases. The typical way it is shown is that the total bars are one color, all positive values are green and...
View ArticleWhat is CQ?
You know about IQ and EQ but CQ is our term for demonstrated charting prowess. In the Build Your CQ blog, we provide tips, tricks and ideas designed to inspire you to make charts that matter. You know...
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China’s $1 Trillion in Overseas Investments
China’s current economic problems could spread throughout the developing world. Since 2004, China has invested over $1 trillion overseas, with much of this spending going into developing economies in...
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Craft Beer and Cider Lead the US Beer Category in Growth and Price
While the $24 billion US domestic beer market grew at just 3.3% last year, craft beer, ciders and a few other specialty segments had significantly higher growth. These high growth categories also...
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Worldwide GDP by Country and Sector
The US economy is much more services-oriented than the rest of the world. China’s economy, in contrast, has a much larger industry and agriculture component. European, Canadian and Australian...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 7.0.1.2160 Release Notes
Overview – This is a minor release that includes bug fixes. Major Corrected Issues: Fixed issue where some Preference Manager settings were not applied to a newly created chart New rules implemented...
View ArticleGet the Gallery
We have expanded our collection of charts and now have more than 150 for you to take and modify for your own presentations. To really accelerate your productivity, download our Gallery Add-In so you...
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What Does an iPhone Cost?
Ever wonder what it cost to make an iPhone? The case, the core electronics and the display make up about 70% of the $228 component cost of an iPhone 6. Even as Apple adds features and increases...
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Most Costly NFL Penalties
Offensive holding cost NFL teams 6,159 yards, the most of any penalty in 2014, with an average impact of 10 yards per call. Defensive pass interference cost teams 3,890 yards, but averaged an...
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How is the Dow Calculated?
The Dow closed on September 29th at 16,049. Where did that number come from? How do you go from the closing quotes for each of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the...
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Can Streaming Save the Music Industry?
Streaming revenue grew 23% from H1 2014 to H1 2015, while revenue from physical media (e.g., CDs and vinyl) and digital downloads declined. In H1 2015, streaming brought in more revenue than physical...
View ArticleThink Outside the Box (or Bar)
We often advise users to start with a stacked or cluster bar chart when unsure about which type of chart would work best given the data. The bar chart may be your best bet but you don’t want to get...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 7.0.100.306 Release Notes (Mac OS X)
Mekko Graphics 7.0.100.306 Release Notes Overview – This release is our major upgrade to 6.9.101.7. It contains all the features and bug fixes listed in the notes for Windows release 7.0.0.2120. Note...
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James Bond at the Box Office
Daniel Craig is fast approaching the most successful James Bond actors–Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Two of his three movies are among the highest grossing Bond films (adjusted for inflation). From...
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The Fragmented Medical Device Market
The $375 billion medical device market is highly fragmented. In each major market segment, no one competitor has more than a 30% market share. In addition, the top 5 segments account for only half of...
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Resume Profile of Past US Presidents
With the presidential debate season in full swing, there is much talk about the differences in qualifications among the candidates. The chart below provides some context for this discussion. The most...
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