The best charts I've ever seen

Check out these charts by Karl Hartig. My favorite is the consumer electronics one. It shows how long it took consumers to adopt electronic stuff. I used it in my book called Rules for Revolutionaries. I've been trying to find it ever since, and my buddy Bryan came through today.

Written at: Palo Alto, California.

Comments

[Beevers]

I with you certainly agree, though much seems to me not absolutely correctly, With pleasure I shall visit once again, I hope you will add to told.

[arjun]

I constantly read your clauses articles , they are very interesting to me!Please be more exact much at you it is written discrepancies!

[Matthew Wilder]

I am a geek, or at least I guy who loves numbers, and I absolutely love those charts. I really love that population chart in 3d. It is truly incredible! Thanks for sharing this great find with us, Guy!

[David Locke]

The technology is less important in a pitch than the deal.

The place to look for the information you are seeking is Gartner's Hype Cycle.

[David Locke]

Tufte gave rise to critique. He didn't design anything.

Information design was old before Tufte came along, so Tufte gets way too much credit.

Try "Soak Wash Rinse Spin: Tolleson Design."

The request for more discussion of technologies miss the point. The deal mat

[Robert Steers]

I love these charts. It would be great to have some of them updated.....

[Kishore]

Hi Guy,
Your blog is very informative to people who have aspirations in line with what you have acheived. You are covering many topics of which some are not even given enough thought.

However, I wish you cover the following and put out a tree that shows how different promising tech areas are progressing. Kind of like Wireless, Cable, Video, VoIP, mulitmedia gaming, storage etc., give your perspective at what rate each area is progressing in the ROI terms. Similar what you or VC world think each area will be say 5 years from now given the experience you have with successful and failures technologies. I know it is a long topic can you atleast throw some links which give a snapshot of emerging techonologies. This I think will be very helpful for many readers.

[Doug Hanna]

Those look pretty cool. Good find.

[Dean Johnson]

I agree with the preceding Tufte comment. That was my first thought.

Some of the graphs have embellishments that are quite distracting and in some respects deceptive.

Any example of the simply distracting is the Immigration graph having the shadows. I realize that it looks cool and might even be more compelling, but its damn distracting.

Any example of the mildly deceptive is the US Population changes graph. The fact that the peaks and valleys are a principle conveyer of intuitive information, choosing the sliced in look for the grid points was a really bad idea. Simple lines would have sufficed. My first blush thought was that every decade there is a curious sudden drop and recovery. Almost looks like missing data.

Then again, after reading Tufte's books, I am very intolerent of such chart junk.

[Scott Stirling]

I was going to say, these charts look influenced by or highly convergent with the charting design principles and observations in Edward Tufte's (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/) "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and other books. Awesome charts.

[Greg M]

Great charts it shows the link between technology and the economy and vice versa!!

Tell Brian thanx!
Greg!

[Jesse Krieger]

These really are fascinating charts! It would be interesting to see the Music Industry chart expanded out to the present to reflect the introduction and triple digit adoption of digital as a music distribution means.

Any leads on that?

-Jesse

[Gary]

I love these! Are you familiar with the work of Edward Tufte? He wrote the definitive book(s) on information graphics design.

[Creative One]

This is someone who has nothing to do, questioning who has much to say. The charts looked great. One question thou, what responsibility does evangelists have? And do evangelists have to work overtime. And what classes do I have to take in order for me to become an evangelist.....GK, I really enjoyed reading your blog.

[C. Enrique Ortiz]

Hey Guy, it would be awesome that have a "printer friendly page" option for your blog entries... There are times would be great to print and take for the road...

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