Visual Data Guru Gifts

'If we switch to a pie chart, would it look less apparent?'

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

"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

'Now THAT'S a presentation! Great delivery, great graphics, and he moonwalks from the room.'

"Eventually, you have to stop visualizing yourself doing well on the test, and actually do the test."

If nobody had invented graphics

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

"Here are the new sales figures, which way up would you like them?"

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

"Until we get a bigger chart, we're estimating it's now about up to here."

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

"COUGH! COUGH! Years of data mining have left me with data lung. Don't be like your old man - go into modeling or visualization!"

ACME Balloon Company.

Let's Celebrate

"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?"

"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."

"The disasters are collaborating better than we are!"

But under a different accounting convention ...

'And right here they merged...'

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

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

Sales Chart Through Ceiling

'And this is after the creation of a Special Effects Department.'

Books / Coffee table books

'Now let's proceed downstairs and see where our stock shares presently sits,'

"Let's see now. This one goes right here."

"I tell you, I don't like the looks of it."

"It seems to be right about this point that our company started going into free fall."