Data Visualization Best-Practices For Split Trends
Interesting data visualization to quickly understand how a KPI is relatively evolving between different items (split by region in this example). The color coding helps to quickly get the big picture.
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Data visualization best-practices
- Per item, display a bar chart
- Use vertical bars and display the KPI value on top of each bar
- Sort the table by period ascending
- When applicable, add symbols or lines to represent possible references: Previous Year, Budget, Forecast…
- Apply color coding to the bar based on the variance between the Actual value and the selected Reference
- Above each period, display the growth rate compared to previous period (+ color coding to indicate whether is growth is positive or negative)
- Allow the user to select which reference must be used for color coding
- 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 change the periodicity of the visualization: Year, Semester, Quarter, Month, Week, Date
- Allow the user to select whether the performance must be shown in Month-To-Date or Year-To-Date
- Allow the user to select the analytical axis by which he wants to split the performance evolution
Leverage this data visualization in business dashboards
- Banking
- Digital Marketing
- Education
- Executive Management
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Human Resources
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Insurance
- Life Sciences
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Procurement
- Project Management
- Quality Management
- R&D / Product Development
- Retail
- Risk Management
- Sales
- Service Management / Call Center
- Social Media
- Supply Chain
- Sustainability, Health & Safety
- Trading
- Other…
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
- Trends
- Contribution
- Pareto
- Segmentation 2D
- Segmentation
- Location Map
- Trends Highlight
- Podium
- Main KPIs Trends Contribution
- Main KPIs Trends
- Performance Split
- Cockpit
- Top Contributors
- Understanding Drivers