Jorge Camoes’ Charts

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How do you sell your outrageously expensive consulting services? Simple, just add a chart…
Not every chart will do, of course. Let me outline some basic design rules of what I call a “consulting chart”:

It shouldn’t be recognizable as a standard chart that you could create in Excel;
It shouldn’t use popular eye-catching design elements, like 3D [...]

Dear Mr. Hervé Carré
I’ve been browsing through some of the Eurostat publications and I thought you would appreciate some constructive feedback, since it is your job to ensure that governments, businesses, media and the general public do have access in a timely manner to reliable and objective data. I’m starting with some general findings, then [...]

This chart [via Junk Charts] in the New York Times uses a “tornado” chart (a population pyramid-like chart) to display two series, advertising spending in measured (traditional media) and unmeasured (Internet…) channels.
When discussing how to create population pyramids, I wrote that I don’t really like tornado charts, specially if you only have two series, [...]

Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Why?
Why Al Gore? Thousands of scientists have been warning about the climate change for years. Why not them? Because of his political weight? Of course, but not only that. Because he learned (the hard way) how to communicate with people. [...]