Replace your complex bar chart with a dot plot to make it better understood

The alternative to bar charts that works well with complex data

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readSep 2, 2021

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A spoon filled with dots on in the foreground with a pink background
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

Bar charts are used for nearly every situation, which means sometimes you’re struck by monstrosities like this:

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