Bullet charts – Avoid extraneous details in corporate presentations

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?

I do not think it is a good idea to present lesser known graph types that need explanation in an enterprise setting.

blog post with a better explanation of what&#x27;s going on from Stephen Few - the designer of the bullet chart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perceptualedge.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;misc&#x2F;Bullet_Graph_Design_Spec.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perceptualedge.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;misc&#x2F;Bullet_Graph_De...</a>

i dont see that as a good data visualization. why you might ask? because it&#x27;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&#x27;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.

This article is a great example of how to pad out your paragraphs by repeating variations of the same sentence over and over.

Original article <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jscharting.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bullet-charts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jscharting.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bullet-charts&#x2F;</a>

As a research scientist, I can not tell you how many scientists straight up read paragraphs of pre written info off of ppts. So boring and impersonal!

Basically a bar-chart version of sparklines:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sparkline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;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.

A dreadful article on a good topic.<p>Repetitious, poorly-worded, unclear (the &quot;how to&quot; for Excel contains no actual instructions).

Any example from corporate presentations that transform to this ?