Lollipop Bar Chart

Declutter your comparisons with a Lollipop Chart

Standard bar/column charts are ideal for showing a single measure per category so you can easily compare each of the categories with the rest. However, if you have larger number of categories (>10) in a bar/column chart it is possible the chart itself becomes “heavy” because large part of the surface of the chart will be filled with the bar color(s).

To avoid this clutter one can use the Lollipop Bar Chart as an alternative to the standard bar chart. It shows an icon (mostly a dot) per category at the corresponding measure value for each category. The icon is connected to the measure-axis origin by a subtle line. The icon combined with the line make it a Lollipop Bar Chart.