There's an easy way to create stacked bar charts in Excel. The real challenge is organizing data to make sure everything shows up as effectively as possible. This guide shows when to use stacked bar ...

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I love data visualizations as much as the next person, but can we agree that we might be overdoing it on stacked bar charts? I’m not opposed to this type of data display. There are several situations ...

A cluster chart is like a bar chart except that it clusters several bars into a category and displays each cluster separately from the rest. For example, you could categorize quarterly sales data by ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...