Thursday, November 21, 2013

Good vs Evil (or "How to confuse with a poor bar chart")

There's good and there's bad. And then there's BAD:


And since the Muscles from Brussels knows no bounds, he played both good and bad in his Oscar-worthy masterpiece, Double Impact.



And since we sometimes refuse to channel our inner van Damme, we create bad bar charts:


We've all done it. Sales by Year by Month. Lots of colors. Lots of data. Almost no insight. This is your Double Team where you make Dennis Rodman look like a real actor. We can fix it, just like they fixed Jean-Claude in Universal Soldier.


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The Magic of the Princess Bride

One of the greatest things about being a dad is making your son -- who was brought up on a steady diet of Call of Duty, John McClane, Dutch, and "did you check to see if it's loaded?!?!" -- watch The Princess Bride.


The transformation from "ha ha dad that's funny" to "horrified" to "pleading 'no don't make me do this!'" to "you're not my dad, what did you do with my dad!?!?" to "resignation" to "this is funny!" is almost too much to bear.

And now I bear the responsibility of sharing some QlikView awesomeness with all of you...