I compared stacked and clustered charts in Stacked vs. Clustered. Stacked charts seem like they’d be good at showing proportions making up whole quantities, but I showed that the stacks only clearly display the bottom item in the stack and the total stack.
To illustrate this shortcoming, Nicolas Bissantz shows us a stacked bar chart showing [...]

Stacked charts are commonly used to compare proportions within a whole. In this post I will concentrate on stacked and clustered vertical column charts, but the arguments hold true for horizontal bar charts, and to some extent for area charts. This table shows some make-believe sales figures for an imaginary company, by quarter and by [...]