The MBA Chart Taxonomy
12 min
Not all charts are created equal. The wrong chart type actively misleads your audience. Master this taxonomy.
The 5 Business Chart Families
- Comparison: Bar, Column, Radar
- Trend: Line, Area, Sparkline
- Part-of-whole: Pie, Treemap, Waterfall
- Relationship: Scatter, Bubble, Heat map
- Distribution: Histogram, Box plot
When to Use Each Chart Type