Briefle words · Data & charts
Rank
Also called ranking
An item's position when all items are sorted by a value, so first means the largest or best.
Say it to an AI
Horizontal bar chart of last month's help-center tickets by topic, answering 'which topics generate the most tickets'. Use sorted bars in ranked order, largest first, with the count at the end of each bar and the top topic darker; topics are nominal categories, so don't default to alphabetical.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Support topics chart”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →Ticket breakdown in the support analytics of an online-course platform.
Why: In B you can see at once that Video playback is second and Certificates last; in A that takes a scan of every bar.
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