Graphic Grappler Gifts

'I think I caught one of those fish showing on the graph.'

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

The Jeopardy of Progress

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

'It's a chart of office morale. This is where you went on vacation.'

Project Length As Measured In Dog Years

'I should not that the cherry and whipped cream were an afterthought created by our graphics dept.'

'Looks like your cash cow just got diverted to the slaughterhouse.'

'This is a 'placebo' line. It serves no purpose but it makes us feel good.'

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"I like going to school...and I like coming home from school. It's all the stuff in the middle that gives me trouble."

"Fantastic presentation! All of the investors loved it."

Pinocchio's Second Realization

'I think we'd be more confident about meeting our targets if we could work out what they were!'

'I got an alleged C on my criminal law test.'

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

'Maybe the reason we don't have those 'off the chart' sales anymore is because our charts are too big.'

ACME Balloon Company.

"We've done a rigorous examination of your business plan using the latest algorithms to model future profits. . . which way up would you like it?"

Let's Celebrate

"Now this chart should clear up any confusion you have with the report."

He then drew a number of smaller pie charts behind the bigger chart. That helped to put it into perspective.

Sales chart plummets into employees head.

"At least we are consistently inconsistent."

'Now this is my kind of green!'

"Thank you, Harris - I get the picture."

"God works in mysterious ways."

Sales.

But under a different accounting convention ...

'And right here they merged...'

Real data visualization specialists are 100% committed to their profession.

'I'm not sure what I want out of life, but I want a lot of it.'

Around here it got a little tricky...

'I understand this was the day you seized, Ferguson?'