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Horizontal bar chart
A bar chart with bars running left to right, which leaves room for full category names and reads top to bottom like a list.
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Chart of exit-survey reasons for Q3, seven answers summing to 100%. Use a horizontal bar chart with sorted bars, largest first, full reason text on the left and the percentage at the end of each bar; a pie chart can't carry seven long labels or separate 9% from 7%.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Churn reasons chart”.
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Try it as a puzzle →Exit-survey summary in the customer-success dashboard of a team-chat SaaS product.
Why: B gives each survey reason a 214px label column and a bar scaled to its percentage; nothing is abbreviated or rotated.
More ways experts use it
Exit-survey reasons as a horizontal bar chart sorted by share, with each full reason written beside its bar and the percentage at the end. No label rotation and no truncation (ellipsis): choose the horizontal bar chart precisely because the category names are long.
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