Devin Knight continues his custom visuals series:
The bullet chart is a variation of a bar graph but designed to address some of the problems that gauges have.
Allows you to split chart by categories
Visuals can be vertical or horizontal
Some of the visualizations in this series have been hit-or-miss for me. I’m on the fence about bullet charts: they seem potentially useful, but also rather dense. I like my visuals to be self-explanatory, and I’d be concerned that if I showed this to management, I’d have to explain what’s going on in more detail than I’d like.