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