Data Visualization Best-Practices For Contribution
This data visualization is very efficient to understand who is helping you reaching your target and who is not. Despite often requiring a bit of explanation at first use, it often becomes a great companions to segment and understand overall performance results.
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Data visualization best-practices
- Display a bar chart
- Use vertical bars and display the KPI variance (Actual versus Reference)
- Display the variance on top of each bar
- Sort item is descending order: you will then have your best contributor on the left
- Make sure the bar is starting at the top of the previous one
- Use color coding in bars to show whether the contribution to the performance is positive or not
- Display a line showing the overall variance (the last bar will of course end at this level)
- Allow the user to dynamically select the KPI he wants to analyze (for instance moving from a Revenue analysis to a Gross Margin analysis)
- Allow the user to dynamically select the axes of analysis
- Allow the user to observe Variance or Variance in %
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- Insurance
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- Manufacturing
- Marketing
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- Project Management
- Quality Management
- R&D / Product Development
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- Risk Management
- Sales
- Service Management / Call Center
- Social Media
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Other data visualizations
- Business Overview
- Project Detail
- Project Gantt
- Portfolio
- P&L / BS Evolution
- P&L / BS Statement
- Ad-hoc
- Ad-hoc Trends
- Growth Card
- What-If
- Retention
- Correlation Detail
- Correlation Overview
- Comparison Trends
- Comparison Table Split
- Comparison Bar Split
- Fact Sheet Variance %
- Fact Sheet Variance
- Fact-Sheet Performance
- Fact Sheet
- Trends Lines
- Stacked Trends
- Split Trends
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- Pareto
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- Location Map
- Trends Highlight
- Podium
- Main KPIs Trends Contribution
- Main KPIs Trends
- Performance Split
- Cockpit
- Top Contributors
- Understanding Drivers