From the course: PowerPoint Data Visualization: High-Impact Charts and Graphs
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Sorting for clarity
From the course: PowerPoint Data Visualization: High-Impact Charts and Graphs
Sorting for clarity
- [Narrator] One thing that most good charts have in common that you may not have noticed is they're sorted in order from largest to smallest, not alphabetically. Now you have to use your head here. Not everything should be sorted. If you have time-based charts like monthly or daily data, chances are, it should be read in that order. January through December, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. But let's say you have a bunch of data from a track meet. You're going to want to plot the winning times in order from fastest to slowest or sports stats with wins per season. You're not going to want to plot that alphabetically. The same thing goes for data about countries and provinces and states, and rivers and mountains, and ice cream and apples, and you get the idea. Generally speaking, alphabetizing that information doesn't help clarify it or make it any easier to understand at a glance. The chart on this slide is a…
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