We released Bubble Chart Pro™ Version 4.3 today. The major new features of this version include the capability to toggle the legend display on and off and implementation of “smart bubble labels” to automatically help prevent overlapping bubble labels that can occur when bubbles are overlapping. The combination of these two features allows users to [...]
Our customers have really liked the ability to use their own graphic backgrounds in their bubble charts that we introduced in Version 4.0, but sometimes the image is too strong as a background to permit adequate contrast of the chart objects. Version 4.1 adds a slider to the preferences that allows you to precisely fade [...]
Today’s bubble chart shows the top ten costliest storms in 2010 U.S. dollars. Note how 6 of the 10 costliest storms occurred between 2000 and 2010. However, if you look at it in a different bubble chart after adjusting for population and housing, the picture is different: only 2 of the 10 costliest storms took [...]
That’s the opinion of Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman. Here’s the full quote from a Strategy+Business Article: “The thing that astonishes me when I talk to businesspeople in the context of decision analysis is that you have an organization that’s making lots of decisions and they’re not keeping track. They’re not trying to learn from [...]
We love new feature suggestions from our users, and we are pleased to introduce the three most requested bubble chart features in Bubble Chart Pro 4. The first most requested feature was the capability to automatically label the bubbles in bubble charts by displaying the project names on top of the bubbles. You can do [...]
In some cases, the answer is “yes.” In a study of economists summarized in the HBR Blog Network entitled “Economists Are Overconfident. So Are You,” Justin Fox describes a study where economists were asked to make predictions based on analyzing numerical data alone, analyzing numerical data and scatter graphs, or analyzing just the scatter graphs. [...]
We just launched Bubble Chart Pro™ Version 3.5, which adds a couple of great new features. First, in Bubble Chart Pro™ PLUS and Bubble Chart Pro™ OPTIMAL, you can now open your project portfolios in a Project Portfolio Dashboard. The Dashboard let’s you view and compare multiple bubble and bar charts in a single form [...]
The difference in the U.S. Stock and Bond Markets is striking. Although the total market value for stocks is slightly over twice that for bonds ($17 trillion versus 8.1 trillion), there are over 6 times the number of bond listings versus stock listings, yet the average daily volume in stocks is almost 10 times the [...]
We just launched Bubble Chart Pro™ Version 3.0 with some great new additions and features, including a bar chart module in our PLUS and OPTIMAL editions. Why bar charts? Where bubble charts are excellent at displaying the relationships of projects with each other in dimensions of their attributes, such as cost, reward, and risk, our [...]
Today’s Bubble Chart is from data published in an article on Yahoo! Colleges are ranked in the legend by size of endowment. “As tuition costs continue to mount at universities across the nation, some colleges are sitting on mountains of cash. And while some of that cash goes to regular campus operations or scholarships for [...]
