>and it always just seems like eye candy. It seems like a list with percentages, instead of fancy graphs, is often just as good and way cheaper. It seems like

>and it always just seems like eye candy. It seems like a list with percentages, instead of fancy graphs, is often just as good and way cheaper. It seems like a lot of engineering type folks just won't accept that most people would rather look at a colorful picture than a list of percentages. If you gave me a choice between looking at a fancy graph that took up more space and showed less data and a list of numbers, I'll take the graph every time. Because I'm a human, and humans get bored easily, and humans appreciate art and color. Don't downplay the importance of eye candy. People like eye candy, just like they like mouth candy. Sure, eating raw sugar is rationally stupid especially when there are many more logical, healthy choices out there. But sometimes you just want to taste something really really sweet; sometimes you really would just rather look at something really pretty.