Indeed, there are surely stories for which only a static chart will do.
Instead of static bar charts and histograms, Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, has used a combination of toy bricks, cardboard boxes, teacups and vibrant, animated data visualisations to breathe life into statistics on health, wealth and population.
It is reviving the advanced biochemistry that has been published in textbooks and illustrated in static wall charts for decades [ 87- 89].
Credit-default-swap spreads on bank debt have remained relatively static (see chart), at least compared with the pounding that their shares have taken since the start of the year.
After a few weeks of mostly static Billboard album charts, new country and rap CD's have taken the top spots.
Static two-dimensional charts such as depicting the dynamics of mean and standard deviation of particle numbers in stochastic simulations are generated using the Python Matplotlib library [ 14].
The clear space for improvement: you can't (at present) choose a chart you've already created in Numbers and paste it or link to it in Keynote, the presentation program – though you can into Pages (with a static or interactive chart).
America's stockmarket has gained more under Democratic than Republican presidentsThe static version of the chart appeared with the article "Voting with the wallet: Democrats have been better for equities, Republicans for bonds" in The Economist on October 6th 2012.
