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I graduated in 1997 and at my first job we had an engineer that loved making Powerpoint presentations. I hated that stuff but he used every 3D option, different color palettes on every page, etc. We had someone else print up fake business cards for him that changed his title to "3D Pie Chart Engineer"

it's art, self-expression through the power of powerpoint, it's fun and liberating, honestly, an exhibition with this theme is just waiting to happen

Nowadays they're just called data visualisation engineers.

Microsoft's WordArt was too much power for some people

People are STILL making shitty charts.

I think the greatest offenders are 3D pie charts. The application of perspective skews the apparent size of each section, completely defeating the purpose of pie charts.