Neat and potentially useful data vis but copy like this makes me barf: “Bullet charts have proven to be ideally suited for any business dashboard data visualization.”<p>Proven? How? By what standard or metric? And for <i>any</i> business dashboard data vis? What does that even mean?
blog post with a better explanation of what's going on from Stephen Few - the designer of the bullet chart: <a href="https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/Bullet_Graph_Design_Spec.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/Bullet_Graph_De...</a>
i dont see that as a good data visualization. why you might ask? because it's not self explanatory. while the target bar might be clear, the poor, average and excellent value feature a different style, while containing similar information. also it's not possible to have 2 bars at the same height, which might not be a problem, but the example they are showing has exactly this problem.
Original article <a href="https://jscharting.com/blog/bullet-charts/" rel="nofollow">https://jscharting.com/blog/bullet-charts/</a>
Basically a bar-chart version of sparklines:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline</a><p>But it manages to actually show <i>less</i> information. Sparklines are nice because you keep the time axis so we know if the current metrics is improving or decreasing.<p>Otherwise just write the number.