Monday, 25 January 2010

Waterfall Chart


Waterfall Chart

A waterfall chart shows the change (increase and decrease) in a category over a period of time

Bubble Pie Chart



Bubble Pie Chart

A unique buble chart that allows you to show/compare/relate performance across 4 paramenter sets instead of two. The third value determines the size of the bubble marker, the fourth by the % of pie while the other two are determined by the position on the axis.

Funnel Charts




Funnel Chart

A good chart to show the performance/impact of different phases of a particular category

Stack + Line Chart



Stacked + Change Line

This chart acts as a good representation to check the contibution by various categories and their change over a period of time 

Friday, 22 January 2010

Bullet Chart


Bullet Chart

Mainly used to compare the 2 sets of data across various categories, this chart can also be used to represent the contribution of a certain category to the total value

Line Chart



Line Chart

You should use a line chart if your category labels are text, and are representing evenly spaced values such as months, quarters, or fiscal years. This is especially true if there are multiple series—for one series, you should consider using a category chart. You should also use a line chart if you have several evenly spaced numeric labels, especially years. If you have more than ten numeric labels, use a scatter chart instead.

100% Stack Chart


100% Stack Chart

You can use a 100% stacked column chart when you have three or more data series and you want to emphasize the contributions to the whole, especially if the total is the same for each category.



Bubble with Trasnsperency

Bubble with Transperency
Buble chart's are a very good way of comparing results against 3 paramenter sets instead of two. The third value determines the size of the bubble marker while the other two are determined by the position on the axis.