Revenue by product line
Which product lines actually carry the quarter.
Five product lines, and the top two are worth more than the other three combined. Bars sorted by size turn that into a one-second read.
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Compare quantities across categories with vertical bars everyone reads instantly.
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Sales by region
Regional performance compared side by side.
Regions are the textbook bar-chart category: unordered, comparable, and meaningless as a trend line.
Open in the editorHeadcount by team
How the company is actually staffed.
Org charts show reporting lines; this shows weight. A support team a third the size of engineering is a roadmap constraint.
Open in the editorMonthly operating costs
The five cost lines that move the P&L.
Payroll dwarfs everything else, which is the point: cost-cutting conversations that start with software subscriptions are looking at the wrong bar.
Open in the editorCampaign performance
Conversions per campaign in a single sprint.
Email beats paid search on conversions and costs a fraction as much. Bars side by side are how that argument gets made in a standup.
Open in the editorSurvey results
Answer distribution across five options.
Likert-scale answers keep their natural order left to right, so the skew towards the positive end is visible without reading a single label.
Open in the editorPage load times
Seconds to interactive on each key page.
A performance budget is a horizontal line across this chart. Any bar above it is a ticket.
Open in the editorSupport tickets by type
Where the support load concentrates.
'How do I' tickets outnumber bugs three to one — a documentation problem wearing a support problem's clothes.
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