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What do people do when they read grouped bar charts? It's amazing how little we talk about this super popular chart type. If you start analyzing them, you soon realize that reading them (properly) is really hard. What are you supposed to derive from a grouped bar chart? A comparison of comparisons? A comparison of distributions. Individual outliers? They are incredibly complex to parse without sufficient training or guidance (like with good annotations). What is your experience with them? It almost makes me want to study them in some kind of experiment. Has anyone studied them rigorously?

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Sebastine Amede

Tableau Developer | SQL | Tableau Featured Author, X2 VOTD | BI Analyst | Supplychain Analyst

4 周

IMO grouped bar charts are by far easier to read than other options (e.g., pie charts, cross-tabs, etc.). I can understand that the chart above is difficult to interpret. A little cleaning here and there would make it clearer. Firstly, I think the colors are redundant (since the bars are already labeled) and unnecessarily distracting. If you remove them, you’ll be left with just the bars, which allows you to easily highlight what you want your audience to see—for example, ‘Sedan vehicles are predominant in all cities?’ Also, consider sorting the data. While this may not be a perfect approach (depending on the audience and the question), it is generally the best option in this context. Lastly you should consider a horizontal bar as it would give you more space for better readability for “vehicle type dimension”

Md Dilshadur Rahman

CS PhD Student at SCI Institute and Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah II Data Visualization Researcher II Data Science Enthusiast

4 周

We studied how visualization students annotate grouped bar charts to tackle high-level questions about the data, breaking them down into tasks like retrieving values, filtering, computing derived values, finding extrema, and sorting. From their annotations, we built a taxonomy of five main annotation types: enclosures, connectors, text, marks, and color. Simple tasks like retrieving values and filtering were easy to annotate, but for trickier ones—like sorting or computing derived values—students often combined multiple annotations to make sense of the data. Here is the paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716241270247

Pete Sime

Data Analyst - Data Visualizationist?

4 周

I prefer this method to a grouped bar (when not a static presentation anyway), easier to read and compare https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/petesime/viz/BarShuffle/Dashboard1?publish=yes

Bill Shander

Author of "Stakeholder Whispering: Uncover What People Need Before Doing What They Ask", keynote speaker, workshop leader, LinkedIn Learning Instructor. Information design, data storytelling & visualization, creativity.

3 周

I despise grouped bar charts and recommend against them. There are better (more understandable) alternatives for every use. I literally can’t imagine a scenario when I would choose them.

I concur that they are hard to read, at least at a glance. I prefer stacked bar charts, as I feel that it is easier to compare the proportions between groups this way.

Dominic Bordelon

Biomedical data curator | reproducibility, Open Science, and research software

4 周

I’ve tended towards a tiled heatmap instead for these bivariate groupings. But I also have many categorical levels, sometimes small membership, which would be infeasible with grouped bars.

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Antti Rask ??

Data Visualization | (Power) BI | R: RandomWalker package (co-author), TuneTeller Shiny App (author), and the author of the upcoming book ggplot2 extended l Helsinki Data Week (founder)

4 周

Both would gain from flipping the axis. And arranging the bars size-wise inside the group.

My experience is simple: ignore the mess; a simple heuristic: confused preenttation = confused analysis

Audrey A.

Business Intelligence Senior Developer, Team & Tech Lead at LeapFrogBI

3 周

I only use them in situations where there are two clusters. Like "This year vs last year" across a handful of categories. Or Open and Closed across dates. Stacked and 100% stacked are far easier to read and configure.

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