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Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: 100% stacked bar chart

  • 100% stacked bar-charts can mislead users into thinking the data values represented by the different bars are the same (as the heights of the bars are 100%). This needs to be made clear on the visualisation.

How to create your own

Create your own: 100% stacked bar chart

  • 100% stacked bar charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Pie and zoom-in-stacked column

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Ethnic minority breakdown in a Rotherham ward.
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