Briefle words · Data & charts
Label rotation
Tilting axis labels, usually 45° or 90°, to squeeze them under narrow columns; it hurts readability and is a sign the chart should be horizontal.
Say it to an AI
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.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Exit reasons chart”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →Exit-survey results chart in the people-analytics module of an HR platform.
Why: B's six reasons are angled at 45° under the bars; A's are written level, right-aligned beside the bars.
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Room 4 · Labels & annotations
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