Sort your bars
Sometimes bar charts have a clear order, a ranking of items. In other cases it is less obvious . Still, you slide looks visually more appealing when you sort them in descending order even if the ranking is not the core of your message.
Survey results in PowerPoint
columns (time series), pies (harder to read than stacked columns), and bar charts (rankings). Below the order/ranking stronger than the value of the actual data point. To add more clarity, I colour -coded the ranked data for one sub segment (not the total!). This brings out the contrast between the
We are big
corporations are focussed on market share rankings and top line sales figures. Chart after chart of many
Color conspicuousness
I love retro advertising. In this Mercedes car ad from 1982, body work painting is ranked by its
Boring updates
ranking, the profit ranking, headcount ranking for each market. It is much more interesting and
Place holder and data charts
information, a ranking of competitors) Place holders with some powerful visual (picture, typography) and
Showing off your clients
with dots to show that they are scattered around the globe Bar chart with sales number ranking to
Visualising sentences
: bar chart with ranking We are going from [a] to [b], to boxes with an arrow in between We are the
Maps: an increasingly important visualization tool
color-coded segments is a much more powerful way to visualize data than a bar chart with a ranking of
Women in the workface
on the last available year’s ranking (Not visible on the static image) When you hoover over a line
Quantification as a communication tool
can be super simple (a ranking of 5 options by value created in 2035), but the sequence how to take almost certain: indecision. A quantification is convenient: simple rank the "score" and the answer
Bar versus column charts
more natural format than stacked bars. Bars to rank things. The shape mimics a “top 10” top to
A compelling pitch deck?
big obvious elephant in the room questions ("What, that sounds like a page rank search engine
Lots of data in one chart
Economist for example. It shows a ranking of country populations over time. The chart contains a number of dimensions: A ranking Three different moments in time Information about the continent of the country
Facebook IPO comparison
each conclusion: How many IPOs in what year: column chart Top ranking of IPOs by value at the opening day: bar chart Top ranking of IPOs by value in 2012 $: bar chart % share price movement on day 1
9 out of 10
almost exactly the same time to present, and this time, with the ranking visually in front of them an entire chart on this one point. Show the ranking of the top 10 social games. It will take you
Investors spend <4min on your pitch deck
not completely agree that the ranking shown here implies how important slides are. Slides with
Rows or columns?
go in columns Big options (1, 2, or 3) usually go in columns Ranking different values usually is
"Visual story telling" has become a buzzword
concepts being abused too many times and visual story telling is joining the ranks of them.
Big co versus small co
years ago. Managers go through the ranks by continuing to use PowerPoint like they used to do, and
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