From: kate rhodes <masukomi@...>
Date: 2006-06-06T05:43:18+09:00
Subject: Re: This is brain dead, but is it stupid?

On 6/2/06, Jeff Pritchard <jp@jeffpritchard.com> wrote:
>
> I'm finding it a bit surprising that anybody is interested in horizontal
> bar graphs.  I've always found them a bit off-putting.  Like I'm
> supposed to lay my head on the table while I look at them.  Will it be
> unforgivably incomplete without support for horizontal bars?

Simple example of why horizontal graphs are important:
Imaging you have 100+ records each of which gets a bar.
With a vertical bar graph you run off the side of page (even without
labels). How are you supposed to do it with a label on each bar?
Horizontal graph allows you to put label + bar on one line, and while
the full graph may scroll off bottom of page people don't mind because
we're used to things going below the fold. Horizontal graphs also
allow you to have more words in the label of each bar because they
don't affect the length of the graph.


- kate = masukomi