1. Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does: A Guide to Better Charts Urban and Regional Economic Development

2. If I want to know about Pittsburgh – the scales of the graph obscure it

3. Too much noise

4. No format on the Y axis No scale on the X axis The colors are too similar

5. No format on the Y axis

6. Don’t require the reader to do mental math to read your chart

7. Compare the next two charts Which shows more rapid growth?

10. They are exactly the same I cut the scale on the first one to make the change look more dramatic.