Clustered & Overlapped Bar Charts

Darío Weitz
Towards Data Science
6 min readJun 2, 2020

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Why & How

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1.- Clustered Bar Charts

AKA: grouped, side-by-side, multiset [bar charts, bar graphs, column charts]

Why: Clustered Bar Charts (CBC) display numerical information about the relative proportion that exists between a main category and its subgroups that belongs to a second categorical variable. Similar to Stacked Bar Graphs, they should be

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