Wednesday, March 31, 2010

How to Make Stacked Bar Charts Clearer

Jon Peltier has written up a great post on his blog dissecting a stacked bar chart of data originally published by Gartner. The original chart looks like this:


He goes through and makes the chart clearer, step by step, to make trends in the data easier to discern. Eventually he gets to this chart, which looks like a total breath of fresh air when put up next to the original:

Jon goes through several different ways of displaying the data. It's definitely worth the quick read here.

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