02 Visualizing amounts

We often encounter datasets containing simple amounts

Swedish musical artists
Rank	Artist	Monthly listeners (m)
1	Avicii	29.47
2	ABBA	23.48
3	José González	4.07
4	Robyn	3.11
5	Timbuktu	0.38
Datasource: Spotify

We can visualize amounts with bar plots

Bars can also run horizontally

Avoid rotated axis labels

Avoid rotated axis labels

Pay attention to the order of the bars

We can use dots instead of bars

Dots are preferable if we want to truncate the axes

Dots are preferable if we want to truncate the axes

Dots are preferable if we want to truncate the axes