Creating a modified bullet chart in a straight table
The main components of a bullet chart (from Stephen Few's perceptualedge.com) are as follows:
- A text label
- A quantitative scale along a single linear axis
- The featured measure
- One or two comparative measures (optional)
- From two to five ranges along the quantitative scale to declare the featured measure's qualitative state (optional)
The "traditional" approach is to have bar representing the feature measure and a line representing the comparative measure. However, as long as we have two separate representations, the bar is not absolutely necessary.
In this recipe we will present a modified bullet chart using an inline linear gauge in a straight table. This allows users to view the results across all ...
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