#barchart

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It was a good day when I realised I could make them hold hands

Data without context leaves the reader wondering. Is it a high number? Is it low? Good? Bad? The context will tell your audience whether the sales figures shown should be perceived in a positive or negative light. Everything’s relative, so we always need some kind of context in order to understand a number.

trying to understand the salary range for my profession, why is this a bar chart?

Is this random clipart, or an actual representation of the data discussed in the article? How do the bars and pie slices relate to each other? WTF is going on here?

I asked a coworker how much overtime her salaried staff worked last year. I got this. In addition to graphic terrible-ness, all the numbers are entered as text.