Archive for January, 2008

Truckers and fashionistas both like … white!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Thanks Emil! Not too bad a graphic. Color is used as an attribute of the object in question. Better done than this one.

Preferred varnish colors in the US

Varnish reflects. Steel sheets are bended. Unnecessary. White for “overall” is not the same as for “luxury”.

I don’t like the sorting. Descending per class. You see what is important per class. But I am more interested in differences between classes. Compare the overall statistics to the different segments.

White is trendy. How does it establish itself? I put it first in my version. And I only sort once. For overall. Sorting is constant for all classes.

But one might argue about that.

Varnish variants

Stock markets down, sparklines up

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I have to curse the Financial Times once more. That is how you need to show stock quotes:

Stock quotes as of 2008-01-24

Here: even more stock quotes with sparklines. And up-to date. Mostly.

Or is anyone interested in the “news” that the last day was up while twenty days before that where down?

I have cancelled all my daily newspapers.

The Financial SUN

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Stock markets are so exciting for the Financial Times Deutschland. Either its all bullish or altogether bearish. Every day anew. Nothing for investors with cardiac insufficiency who happen to miss their glasses.

Financial Times Germany, 2008-01-10, 1st page

This is the same level as for the regional newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten. They have two angles only, too.

For sensitive souls like me an arrow signals a trend. The steeper the more. A trend is easy to calculate and visualize:

Index quotes with sparklines

* nt = “no trend”