Data Visualization Best-Practices For Fact Sheet

This data visualization provides a clear vision on the performance details split by a given analytical axis (Revenue by Country in this example)

Data visualization best-practices

Display a table, for each item
- Display an indicator to highlight whether the performance for this item is positive or negative
- Display the item name
- Display the rank of this item in the overall list
- Display the share of the item compared to the overall performance (only applicable for additive KPIs)
- Display the cumulative share (only applicable for additive KPIs)
- Display the actual KPI performance + a mini-bar giving a quick overview of the relative weight of this item in the list
- Display the reference (Budget, Forecast, Previous Year…) + a mini-bar giving a quick overview of the relative weight of this item in the list
- Show the variance between actual performance and the reference
- Show the variance in %
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 select the analytical axis by which he wants to split the performance
Allow the user to dynamically select the reference (Budget, Forecast, Previous Year…) against which to compare the actual KPI performance
Allow the user to select point of view on data: Month-To-Date, Quarter-To-Date, Year-to-Date or Moving-Annual-Total