"Timeline charts are great for providing quick snapshots of historical events. .. Then it strike me, why not make a visual time line of Microsoft Excel ? So I did that instead."
"Since our post about Infographics, a *lot* of people, stunned by Tufte's "less is more" gif, have been asking us lately what's our recommendation for a data visualization package. Considering the size of their datasets, and the kind of story they wanna tell, our answer has been invariably the same: "Well, use your dusty ol' Excel". Surprising isn't it?"