Bar Charts, What You Must Know | Part 01
Here I’m sharing a few tips on how to make bar charts.
They’re one of the most commonly used visualizations… and, interestingly, also one of the most misused.
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#DataViz #BarCharts #InformationDesign
From @policyviz.bsky.social "when we create stacked #BarCharts, we ask a lot of our readers: make several comparisons simultaneously, with many of those comparisons sitting across different baselines..." Technical but interesting! jschwabish.substack.com/p/can-we-imp... #statistics #dataviz
Icon Arrays vs Bar Charts: Impact on Health Risk Decisions
Icon arrays combined with numeric labels and side‑by‑side placement improve risk difference accuracy, while higher health literacy boosts the benefit, a study found. Read more: getnews.me/icon-arrays-vs-bar-chart... #iconarrays #barcharts #healthrisk
🌸 Spring Refresh: Evolving Our 3minuteQI™ Series 🌸
In her latest blog Nicola Davey reflects on what’s changed, what’s challenged us, and what we’ve learned along the way...
Read: qiclearn.com/reflections-...
#3minuteQI #QItools #QualityImprovement #QIClearn #PDSA #RunCharts #BarCharts #QISky
China is the country with the most battery storage capacity, just in case you were wondering...
#battery #batterystorage #worldnews #china #charts #graphs #barcharts #randominfo #datanerd #didyouknow #worldeconomics #random #datavisual #data #analytics #statistics
Ukraine spent the most on their military as a share of GDP, just in case you were wondering...
#military #militaryspending #ukraine #worldnews #charts #graphs #didyouknow #datanalytics #datavisual #barcharts #randominfo #statistics
Poultry is the most popular meat in the US, in case you were wondering.
#poultry #meat #meatlover #carnivore #graphs #barcharts #stats #statistics #randominfo #foodie #foodsky #argentina #japan #germany #ethiopia
Data tip: Bar charts should (almost) always start at zero! 📊
Why? The length of bars visually represents magnitude. If the axis doesn’t start at zero, it can distort the data, exaggerating differences that aren’t significant.
#DataScience #DataViz #VisualizationTips #BarCharts #DataEthics
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Clustered #barcharts seem to be often abused in #dataviz to compare the items from a cluster when line and slop graphs (B), respectively enhanced matrix #tables (D,E,F,G) and #aster plots (H) can occasionally do a better job.
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Given their wide use and proneness to misinterpretation, #barcharts are probably the worst data #visualisation https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03996-w
