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carlosbarboza
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1 year ago

P01 - Directed Dot Plot

Directed dot plot versus the known, familiar but, overly-encoded clustered bar chart.  A directed dot plot has only one side encoded with a marker, preferably the latest or most current value alon...
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carlosbarboza
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1 year ago

below on point # 1, its the source of inspiration for the directed dot plot example made in Power BI  - now it could also have been an arrow chart like in point # 2, but comparing both options is the encoding of triangles for the end markers: intuitive but also a bit excessive compared to a simple circle marker?

point # 3 is the classical dumbbell plot which work nicely for categorical comparisons, and I find the design decision of toning down the hue of the benchmark marker to help the other marker, "the main character" get more attention (red markers)

now point # 4 is again a dumbbell plot with 3 categorical items to compared and I still struggle to process it....do you as well ? I think another chart type would have served better for this representation.

Again many thanks to the data graphics of The Economist  for their weekly charts on their magazines. Yes, I do cut them and saved them on a notebook #ShamelessNerd