Design a part-to-whole/ranking display

CTE-2 Order: #2 Design the Visual Story Has Dependencies

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Guidance

Sort items by value and use a bar graph (never a pie chart) for ranking/part-to-whole comparison; switch to a dot plot when the scale must be narrowed off zero; use a Pareto chart (bars + cumulative-% line) for 80/20 analysis; re-express with √ (mildest), then log, then inverse when values span a huge range; use a line graph only to show rank changes over time (a bumps chart), never a single ranking snapshot.

Details

Order:: #2
Phase:
Predecessor:: CTE-1 Design a time-series display
Successor:: CTE-3 Design a deviation display
Created:: Sep 18, 2026
Last Updated:: Sep 18, 2026

Workflow

Choose Chart per Analysis Type

Apply a chart-selection rule set for each of the six recurring analysis types so every finding gets the display type …

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EDA Practitioner

The person or AI system running this playbook end to end — analyst, programmer, and …

Required Skills

Chart-Type Selection per Analysis Type Chart Design

Rules

Dot plot instead of narrowed bars dot-plot-instead-of-narrowed-bars
Pie charts underperform bar graphs pie-charts-underperform-bar-graphs

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