Comments on: Alternatives to the Clustered Bar Chart

By: Ann K. Emery | Removing the Double Y Axis

Ann K. Emery | Removing the Double Y Axis — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:52:58 +0000

[…] least favorite charts of all time include clustered bar charts, 3D exploding pie charts, and line charts with two y axes. By now, hopefully you know my style. […]

By: Muhammad Suleman

Muhammad Suleman — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:04:59 +0000

This is a very helpful article which helps a person to improve their bar graph and not have any unnecessary things in the graph. The author removes the grid lines, borders and flips the order of the bars which makes it a lot easier to understand. These little things addressed in the article makes your work standout more, very helpful.

By: Casey Astalos

Casey Astalos — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:00:53 +0000

I found this blog very interesting. It was very easy to understand the purpose of the blog as well as to understand how to make better graphs. I liked learning more ways to make my data sets pop in a presentation. The color and tiles help make everything stand out better. These are definitely things that I will be using in my next presentation.

By: Drew Valian

Drew Valian — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:14:44 +0000

Coming from a person who has no knowledge regarding data visualization it is interesting to know how much one can make their data pop! I really enjoyed the formatted bar cluster chart. The difference in the title and the different shades of color make the information stand out a lot more than the original blue and orange. the different fonts as well make a difference in the chart as well. These are little key elements in making the charts more visual that will be crucial to know when displaying data.

By: talenthouseblog

talenthouseblog — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:37:59 +0000

The first chart that the article opened with was absolutely atrocious. However, I love the author’s spin on it with the different graph types. My favorite graph was the dot plot. I think that this one is the best, because it is extremely clear. There is a lot of openness in the graph, and this provides a lot of clarity to the graph’s purpose. I also thought the color scheme was creative, because it kept both groups as the focal point. I also like how even though the percents are included within the dots, the author still included the “0-100%” at the bottom. Little details in the graph like this are so important. I also enjoyed her title change as well, because the first title’s grammar was weird. Overall, the author’s message was easy to understand and her execution of the graph itself was perfect.

By: Ann K. Emery | Transforming a Table: Four Charts and Four Different Stories

Ann K. Emery | Transforming a Table: Four Charts and Four Different Stories — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:52:15 +0000

[…] Both legends and sideways text take longer to read, a drawback we can’t ignore… Yet another reason I despise clustered charts. […]