Data Stories: Better Bar Charts
Improve your charts by following best practices, choosing the most effective layout, or combining chart types to convey more information.
- By Upside Staff
- April 25, 2018
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Consumers have high standards for data visualizations today. Make sure you’re following these basic guidelines for clear, informative charts.
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Even something as simple as a bar chart can be presented in many ways. This post from Datawrapper presents the pros and cons of different configurations for stacked bar charts.
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Given more tools for data visualization, users are combining charts in new ways. This post explains how to use Tableau to combine a bar chart with a sparkline.