Declutter Exercise
In this post, I decluttered step-by-step. The original graph is shown below.
Original graph
To improve it, I removed annotations, simplified x-axis labels, changed the y-axis label from every 20 to every 15 days, so I could remove the subtitle (Goal = 90 days) while the goal of 90 days still stands out, as you can see in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1
Second, since it is data over time, I turned the bar chart into a line graph. However, in Figure 2, there is no key take away and is more like an exploratory analysis. Therefore, to perform explanatory analysis, I decided to emphasize three indirect sales that missed the goal.
Figure 2
Now as you can see in Figure 3, I used “proximity” to put data labels right next to the data they describe and applied “similarity” to match the colors of data and data labels. Also, I added the key insight to the title in blue font and highlighted the three indirect sales points to allow my audiences to quickly focus on the points of interest.
Figure 3
Thank you for reading 😊
See the original post for the exercise: declutter!