This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to ...

You can turn any graph into stunning 3D with Illustrator. In this post we show you how to make a Bar Graph 3D in Illustrator.This will help your presentations and infographics stand out.

This example subgroups by department the 3D vertical bar chart of total sales for each site that is shown in Specifying the Sum Statistic in Bar Charts. In addition to subdividing the bars to show the ...

Its Excel and PowerPoint programs often suggest 3D bar and pie charts, which made the charts popular but not always appropriate. Information designers are rightly horrified.

By default, reference lines in 3D bar charts are drawn on the back plane of the axis. To draw reference lines in front of the bars, use the FRONTREF option. ... By default, the GCHART procedure ...

First, let’s see what a bar graph spaced properly looks like. The lines are plotted at the same dates as in the original figure of the last post. These simple figures were drawn with Excel 2010.