Picking the right chart
Designing dashboards people use · Lesson 5 of 24
Every chart answers one kind of question. In this lesson we match the question to the chart: trends over time, parts of a whole, comparisons and spread.
- Lines for change over time
- Bars for comparing things
- A number when one number is the answer
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Pie charts: no more than four slices.
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Start the value axis at zero for bars.
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RKWhen is a table better than a chart?Ravi Kapoor · 5 answers
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