Horizontal Stacked Bar
Horizontal stacked bars with the index axis flipped to the y-axis, ideal for ranking categories whose names are long enough to need horizontal space — survey responses, regional revenue mixes, funnel cohorts, agent workload by ticket type. Each colored segment along a row represe
Template details
- chart
- bar
- horizontal
- stacked
- chartjs
When to use this template
This visualization effectively reveals the proportional breakdown of a total across several categories, making it easy to compare the composition of each category. Analysts use it to understand how different components contribute to a whole and to rank categories based on their overall size or the contribution of specific sub-components.
- Primary categorical dimension with multiple distinct members.
- Secondary sub-categorical dimension for segmenting each primary member.
- Values representing parts of a whole, summing to a meaningful total.
- Primary category labels are long, benefiting from horizontal orientation.
- Data for comparing composition and ranking across categories.
- Quantitative values in consistent units, allowing additive comparison.