Improving simple bar charts
Junk Charts 2022-02-25
Here's another bar chart I came across recently. The chart - apparently published by Kaggle - appeared to present challenges data scientists face in industry:
This chart is pretty standard, and inoffensive. But we can still make it better.
Version 1
I removed the decimals from the data labels.
Version 2
Since every bar is labelled, is anyone looking at the axis labels?
Version 3
You love axis labels. Then, let's drop the data labels.
Version 4
Ahh, so data scientists struggle with data problems, and people issues. They don't need better tools.