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How company revenues are distributed across all our Product Lines?

COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINEPRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE C 45%PRODUCT LINE D 7%PRODUCT LINE E 18%Tot 100%

Well, the first option that came to my mind was…

I thought this would be an easy one

Data Visualization Challenge

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COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE C 45%

PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE E 18%PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE D 7%

Tot 100%

REVENUES %

PRODUCT LINE C PRODUCT LINE B PRODUCT LINE E

PRODUCT LINE A PRODUCT LINE D

- Order the revenues column- Create a Pie Chart using default settings

This one doesn’t seem to work. It is not easy to understand at all!

Maybe I need to work a little bit more with settings.

Pie Chart#DataVizChallenge

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COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE C 45%

PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE E 18%PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE D 7%

Tot 100%

Modify the default Pie Chart settings:- Add Labels- Move the Legend- Enlarge the Text- Modify the Title----------------------------------------Still no good!

Then I remembered what Stephen Few* says about pie chart and went back to basics.

I designed my own horizontal bar graph!

*http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_busine

ss_intelligence/save_the_pies_for_dessert.pdf

45%

20%

18%

10%

7%

COMPANY REVENUES % by PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE C

PRODUCT LINE B

PRODUCT LINE E

PRODUCT LINE A

PRODUCT LINE D

Pie Chart [reloaded]

#DataVizChallenge

@sandolinic

COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE C 45%

PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE E 18%PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE D 7%

Tot 100%

OK, this one looks better!

There are 2 things I would like to modify:1. Move the labels in front of the bars2. Add the total at the bottom

Should be easy, right?

Let’s see how it goes with Excel.

Sketch

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#DataVizChallenge

@sandolinic

COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE C 45%

PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE E 18%PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE D 7%

Tot 100%

7%

10%

18%

20%

45%

D

A

E

B

C

COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINEConvert the Pie Chart into Bar Graph:- Remove the Legend- Remove the horizontal axes- Shorten the vertical axes labels- Add the bar labels- Change the bar colors

It still didn’t feel quite right.

Excel doesn’t let me modify labels or total!

Horizontal Bar Graph#DataVizChallenge

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COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE C 45%

PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE E 18%PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE D 7%

Tot 100%

So I looked for another approach:

- Go back to the table- Add a new column by copying the

REVENUES %- Add the bars by using conditional

formatting- Some manual formatting

Now I fixed the labels but I lost control over the bars!- I cannot modify the colors- I cannot modify the bar width

I am stuck!

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES % REVENUES %2

C 45%

B 20%

E 18%

A 10%

D 7%

Tot 100%

COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

Table with bar graph#DataVizChallenge

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COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES %PRODUCT LINE C 45%

PRODUCT LINE B 20%PRODUCT LINE E 18%PRODUCT LINE A 10%PRODUCT LINE D 7%

Tot 100%

Finally I’ve got it!Well, not really.

I ended up drawing the bars manually!

PRODUCT LINE REVENUES % REVENUES %2

C 45%

B 20%

E 18%

A 10%

D 7%

Tot 100%

COMPANY REVENUES % BY PRODUCT LINE

This is not a graph,it’s a picture!

#DataVizChallenge

To be continued…