Presenting some advanced visualizations
As mentioned previously, when you learn to read visuals, your curiosity will grow and you’ll want to learn more about visualizations. From that curiosity, you can progress and learn to use more advanced visualizations. This section will cover some sophisticated types of visualizations that have been chosen from a huge list.
Bullet charts
Bullet charts are part of the Magnitude functional visualization group and represent progress toward a specific value (goal). One of the benefits of a bullet chart is that it displays the actual and desired values together. Another benefit is that if you align multiple bullet charts on top of each other, using the same range, you can also compare them (which you cannot do easily with multiple gauge charts). You can also add ranges for good, bad, and average values; these are represented by colored bands. Figure 7.36 depicts an example of a bullet chart:
Figure 7.36 –...
