While revenue from baggage fees increased by $1.3B among the top 6 US carriers from 2010-2018, most of the additional revenue went to just 3, as shown in this stacked bar chart.  Baggage revenue was close to flat for American, United and Delta--the three largest carriers.  It was up between 24% and 29% per year for the next three--Spirit, Frontier and JetBlue. Data are from the US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

US Top 6 Airline Baggage Fees 2010-2018 in a Stacked Bar Chart with CAGR Column

How I Made This Stacked Bar Chart with CAGR Column

Data for this chart are presented below: 

The baggage fee data are available for download in Excel on the web.  The data required some manipulation to get it into the form above.  First, data had to be taken from multiple worksheets, one for each year, into a single worksheet.  Next, data for US Airways had to be summed into American for some pre-merger years and the same process was required for Continental and United.  Finally, I added the CAGR data using the Mekko Graphics built-in CAGR formula.

Here's how I made the stacked bar chart:

• created a chart in PowerPoint from the data range above in Excel
• used Format Bars and Series to show the last column as a CAGR
• added the legend and aligned the legend with the CAGR
• hid the axis lines, labels and tick marks
• added the y axis label
• adjusted internal chart margins, y axis maximum and font sizes
• changed colors of series to highlight Spirit, Frontier and JetBlue and place American, Delta and United in shades of grey

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• High Speed Rail Lines Worldwide
• Airline Traffic Growth by Region 2015-2035
• Airline Delays Among Largest Global Carriers

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It’s almost 4 times more expensive to getaway to Milan for a weekend than to getaway to Istanbul, as shown in this horizontal bar chart.  Data from Deutsche Bank's Mapping the World's Prices 2019 report indicate that the cost of a weekend getaway to Milan is $2,706, to New York City is $1,631 and to Istanbul is $711.  A weekend getaway includes two nights at a standard 5-star hotel room, two pub meals for two, two restaurant dinners for two, car rental for two days, two pints of beer, four liters of soft drinks/water, and purchases of a pair of jeans and a pair of sports shoes.

Weekend Getaway Costs in a Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Rows

How I Made This Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Rows

Data for this chart are presented below: 

The Deutsche Bank report contained data for 50 cities.  I chose a representative group of 20, focusing on the extremes in cost, larger cities and cities on all continents.  Twenty bars is about the maximum number for a readable horizontal bar chart on a standard landscape PowerPoint slide.

Here's how I made the horizontal bar chart with data row:

• used pdftable website to convert the report into an Excel file
• copied the getaway costs table from the Excel file into a new workbook
• extracted the rows for the 20 cities and the columns for cost for 2019
• opened a previous Chart of the Week that showed the price of a pint of beer around the world
• paste data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor for this chart
• placed the city data in the appropriate continent column
• adjusted the arrow column to indicate whether cost was higher or lower than New York (our benchmark)
• changed the data format of bar totals
• updated the colors of the series to match the legend
• changed y axis maximum so that the longest bar stretched to end of chart area
• made font color of data rows for those cities with costs greater than New York red and less than New York green

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• The Price of a Pint of Beer Around the World
• Cost of a Starbuck's Latte Around the World
• Top 20 Global Travel Destinations

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The proposed Fiat-Renault combination will provide Renault with a presence in North America, as shown in these Marimekko charts.  Both firms are strong in EMEA and the smaller South American market.  Neither firm is very strong in the Asia-Pacific market.  Their combined share of total vehicle sales ranges from 22% in South America and 19% in Europe, to 12% in North America and only 4% in the Asia-Pacific region.  The data on sales came from the Wall Street Journal and the market size data from best-selling-cars.com. 

Fiat-Renault Combined Vehicle Sales in Marimekko Charts with Data Rows

How I Made This Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Rows

Data for this chart are presented below: 

The Wall Street Journal data broke down the combined Fiat-Renault vehicle sales EMEA into Europe, Middle East and Africa.  Since the Middle East and Africa markets were quite small, combining made the chart more readable.  In addition, the market size data used in the data rows was only available for a combined EMEA.

Here's how I made the Marimekko chart on the left with data rows:

• input sales by region from WSJ into Excel
• use Excel sum to create EMEA column and Total column
• add market size data from best-selling-cars
• compute Fiat-Renault market share with Excel formula
• create Marimekko chart in PowerPoint based on Excel data range
• in Bars and Series form, exclude Total column, set total market size and Fiat-Renault share to data rows, and set number formats for data rows
• uncheck autowrap on data row labels to have them display on a single line
• add y axis title and hide y axis line, tick marks and labels and x axis line in Format Axis task pane
• set number formats for segment values and bar totals
• display segment values and percent of bar in each segment
• adjust colors and internal chart margins
• hide the small segment label for Renault North America sales

To create the total Marimekko chart:

• create a copy of the left hand chart
• shrink the width of the right chart to take up about 3/4 of the slide width and make the copy about 1/4 of the slide width
• add sums and formula to calculate total market size and Fiat-Renault share
• open the copy and hide the regions show the total bar only
• adjust the right margins to create space for the legend and add the legend
• align the two charts so that they appear next to each other with a small gap between the two Marimekko charts

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• US Electric Vehicle Market
• High-Speed Rail Lines Worldwide
• Who Uses Uber and Lyft?

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Mobile accounted for 65% of the $107.5B internet ad revenue in 2018, as shown in this 100% stacked bar chart.  Spending is slightly higher in the second half of the year, with H2 contributing 54%.  The top 10 companies control ¾ of spend and the next 15 added another 7%.  Search is the most popular advertising format.  It accounted for 45% of the total ad revenue.  It was followed by banner ads (31%) and video (15%).  Data are from the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

Internet Advertising Revenue Profile in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart

How I Made This Internet Advertising Profile 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Data for this internet advertising profile chart are presented below: 

There is a column for each bar and a distinct set of rows for the data for each column.

Here's how I made the internet advertising 100% stacked bar chart:

• input internet advertisindata by retyping from the IAB report, converting percentages to dollars when needed
• show series labels with values and percentages
• format the values with $B and one decimal place and format percentages to appear on separate line
• add y axis title
• hide y axis line, tick marks and labels and x axis line
• adjust internal chart margins to make chart fill most of container
• reduce bar gaps
• adjust colors so that each bar uses shades of different color

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• Presidential Candidates Social Media Spend
• Mobile Phone Penetration in Emerging Economies
• Worldwide Ski Market

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Women perform over ¾ of the unpaid care work worldwide and they spend more time working than men, as shown in this 100% stacked bar chart.  Women spend about 265 minutes per day on care work and men spend just 83 minutes.  Men spend 322 minutes on paid work and women spend 183.  Overall, men spend 20% of their work time on care work, while women spend 59%. Data are from Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work, ILO Report.

Gender Gap in Unpaid Care Work in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart with Data Column

How I Made This Unpaid Care Work 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Data for this chart are presented below: 

Here's how I made the gender gap in unpaid care work 100% stacked bar chart:

• typed the data on unpaid care work and paid work into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• used formulas to computer total work by gender and % of time spent on unpaid care work
• used Bars and Series dialog to set data column
• removed y axis line, tick marks and labels and x axis line
• added y axis title
• showed segment labels with values and calculated percentage
• formatted data column to show percentage
• changed series colors
• adjusted internal chart margins and bar gaps
• added linking lines between segments

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• Immigrants Drive Growth in US Workforce
• India's Toilet Building Initiative
• Workers in the Gig Economy

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Both amount of meat consumption and mix of meat type consumed vary greatly by country with the US consuming over 100 kg per person and India under 4 kg per person, as shown in these bar charts.  China's 62 kg per person is 60% pork, while Argentina's 107 kg per person is over 50% beef.  Poultry is most popular in the US and India.  Mutton and goat is most popular in Nigeria.  Meat consumptions data are from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as reported in Our World of Data.

Meat Consumption by Country and Type in a Bar Chart and a 100% Stacked Bar Chart

How I Made Meat Consumption Bar Chart and 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Data for both of these charts are presented below: 

Our World of Data provided meat consumption data by country, region and  file for download.  I took that csv data and created an Excel PivotTable.  From the PivotTable, I generated the above spreadsheet data.  I wanted to choose a representative set of larger countries that varied both in amount and type of meat consumed. 

Here's how I made the charts:

• created the 100% stacked bar chart first
• shrink height of chart container so chart fills 1/2 page
• used the switch bars/series button to treat rows as bars and columns as series
• selected the subset of bars (countries) from my spreadsheet, eliminating the ones I did not want to use in Format Bars and Series
• showed legend and placed on bottom of chart
• hid bar totals and showed percentages in segment labels
• adjusted internal chart margins to make chart fill container
• added segment links
• his segment labels in very small segments to increase readability
• used custom sort to order series, bars and legend items
• added y axis title
• hid y axis lines, labels and tick marks and x axis line
• moved y axis title to bottom of chart and bar labels to show above bars
• adjusted series colors
• copied 100% stacked bar chart and used copy as basis for top bar chart
• changed chart type to stacked bar
• hid all series, except total meat consumption by country and hid last bar that showed world
• added average line for world average
• added bar gap after last bar so that the bars of both charts aligned
• hid segment labels and bar labels
• showed bar totals with kg as suffix
• updated y axis title and series color
• aligned the two charts and positioned the bar above the 100% stacked.

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• US Citrus Fruit Production
• Change in CO2 Emissions
• Edible Insect Market Growth

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The number of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) will grow fastest in Europe, Russia and Asia and will lag in North America, as shown in this bar-mekko chart.  Europe. North America and Asia have the most individuals with wealth of at least $30M.  Data on ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) is from the Knight Frank Wealth Report.

Growth in the Wealthy by Region in a Bar-Mekko Chart with Data Row

How I Made This Bar-Mekko Chart with Data Row

Data on UHNWIs by region can be found in two figures in the Knight Frank Wealth Report.  I typed the data into Excel:

Here's how I made the bar-Mekko chart:

• use data on number of UHNWIs for data row and to set bar width in Bars and Series dialog
• sort bars with widest on left
• adjust internal chart margins to maximize horizontal chart area
• enter y axis title
• adjust y axis maximum to bring bars closer to top of chart area
• hide x and y axis elements, except for y axis title
• format bar totals to show as percentage
• sort bars with
• change orientation of smaller bars and corresponding values in data rows to vertical
• adjust line feed in data row label and move smaller bar total labels to improve readability

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• House Hunting by the Wealthy
• Philanthropy Mix of the Ultra Wealthy
• Where Billionaires Live

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Mobile internet advertising revenue grew at a 77% annual rate (CAGR) over the past 5 years, while desktop ad revenue CAGR was just 1%.  Data for desktop, mobile and total internet as revenue, year over year growth rates in each, and mobile share of total revenue are presented in this stacked bar chart with data rows, CAGR column, and growth lines.  IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report was the data source.

Mobile versus Desktop Internet Advertising Revenue  in a Stacked Bar Chart with Data Rows and CAGR Column

How I Made This Internet Advertising Stacked Bar Chart

Data for this mobile internet advertising chart are presented below: 

The data for the chart itself is in the range A1:K3.  Column L contains the CAGR for 2014-18 and uses the built-in Mekko Graphics CAGR formula (e.g., =CAGR(start value, end value, number of periods).  Rows 4, 5, and 6 contain formulas used to compute YoY growth and mobile internet advertising share.

Here's how I made the mobile internet advertising stacked bar chart:

• designate rows 4, 5, and 6 as data rows and format them to show as percentages and designate column L as a CAGR column in the Bars and Series dialog
• show all segment labels as values
• format segment labels and bar totals to show with $ as prefix (units
• add the legend and move it to the upper left of the chart
• hide the y axis
• adjust the internal chart margins to reduce the left margin
• uncheck autowrap to display the data row headers on a single line
• add the growth lines for 2009-2013 and 2014-2018 and show CAGR values
• adjust the series colors and remove the segment borders

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• Internet Advertising Revenue Profile
• Presidential Candidates Social Media Spend
• Mobile Phone Penetration in Emerging Economies

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Ethno-nationalists and separatists were responsible for over 60% of the terrorism attacks in the EU in 2018, as shown in these marimekko charts.  The UK and France were the primary target countries.  56 of the 129 incidents were ethno-nationalist or separatist incidents that took place in the United Kingdom.  Jihadists were responsible for 24 of the incidents, with 10 of the 24 taking place in France.  Data on failed, foiled and completed terror attacks came from the EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2019.

EU Terrorism Incidents by Affiliation and Country in Marimekko Charts

How I Made These Marimekko Charts

Data for these charts are presented below: 

The EU report contained the terrorism incident data by affiliation and by country and then linked the two sets of data with a  flow graph.  I needed to use some eyeballing to determine the data by affiliation within each country.

Here's how I made the Marimekko chart on the right:

• input terrorism incident data into Excel and create a Marimekko chart in PowerPoint based on the selected Excel data range
• adjust the internal chart margins to make the left and right chart margins very narrow
• close the chart and adjust the chart container size so that it is about 3/4 of the page width
• hide x and y axes and grand total
• make segment borders white and thinner
• make chart borders white
• adjust colors of each series
• sort bars with widest on left and sort series with biggest on bottom
• reduce font size and slant right-most bar labels
• reduce font size of right most bar totals
• make vertical segment labels in thinner bars
• hide segment labels in two right-most bars

To create the total Marimekko chart:

• create a copy of the left hand chart
• shrink the width of the copied chart to take up about about 1/4 of the slide width
• add a column to Mekko Graphics Data Editor for sum of terrorism data by affiliations across countries
• select all country bars and do not show them on chart
• unhide y axis values and increase left margin so they show on chart
• align the two charts so that they appear next to each other with a small gap between the two Marimekko charts

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• Growth in the Wealthy by Region
• Economics Nobel Laureates
• Change in CO2 Emissions

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A smaller percentage of Americans 20-24 have are driving, while a much larger percentage of those 70-74 year are. Federal Highway Administration data for 1994 and 2017 are compared in the cluster bar chart on the left. There was a 93% increase in the number of licensed drivers age 70-74 and just a 15% increase in those 20-24 between 1994 and 2017 as shown in the right chart.

Driving Among Younger and Older Americans in two Cluster Bar Charts with Segment Comparison Lines

Data on driving among 20-24 and 70-74 year olds is presented below: 

I used the same data for both charts.  In the left chart, I showed just the last two series and in the right chart I showed the first two.

Here's how I made the left chart:

• add a half page cluster bar chart to PowerPoint
• copy and paste the driving data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• right-click on the A2 and A3 to not show these series in the chart
• add y axis title and uncheck autowrap for the title
• change the y axis maximum to .92
• format bar totals as percentages
• adjust internal chart margins to fill the horizontal space of the chart
• shrink the bar gaps to make the bars wider
• change the series colors
• add the segment comparison lines and show

Here's how I made the right chart:

• copy and paste the left chart and move it to the right of the slide, aligned with the left chart
• open the chart
• in the Format Axis dialog to make the y axis computed and to change the y axis title
• in the Bars and Series dialog indicate that the first two series should be displayed on chart and the last two not displayed
• change the data scaling to divide the numbers by 1,000 converting thousands to millions
• format the bar totals with M as suffix
• change the y axis maximum to 19M
• change the format of the segment comparison lines to show both value and percentage

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• Gender Gap in Unpaid Care Work
• US Household Spending
• Most Dangerous Cities for Pedestrians

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If you would like to reuse a chart, you can simply replace the data in the chart data sheet with your data. To make it easier to update the chart, however, you may want to link the chart to Excel data. Here's how to do it.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint file containing the chart or insert the chart into a PowerPoint file from the chart gallery.

Step 2: Double click on the chart and choose Chart Data from the Edit Chart ribbon.

Step 3: Copy the data from the chart data sheet and paste it into Excel.

Step 4: Replace the data in the pasted range with your data. Then, select the same data range in Excel.

Step 5: Return to PowerPoint and double click on the chart. In the Edit Chart ribbon, under Link to Excel, choose Link to Selected Range. This will link the PowerPoint chart to the Excel data and a green border will appear around the chart indicating that the chart is synchronized with the data.

Step 6: To update the chart manually when your data changes, select Refresh under Link to Excel. To automatically update the chart, open the Excel Link Manager under Mekko Graphics Charts. Select the checkbox under the Auto column for your chart.

If you would like to reuse multiple charts from a PowerPoint presentation, choose Export Charts to Excel from the drop down menu in the Update Charts section of the Mekko Graphics Charts ribbon. This will give you an Excel file with the data for each chart in a separate worksheet. Repeat the steps above for each chart you want to link.

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B2B and IT accounted for over 50% of private equity deals in Q2 2019, as shown in the 100% stacked bar chart on the left.  The other sectors, in order of number of deals, were healthcare, B2C, financial services, energy and materials and resources.  Energy deals were relatively larger.  They accounted for 4% of the number of deals and 15% of the deal dollars.  Data for the charts are from Pitchbook US PE Breakdown 2Q 2019. 

Nine $1B+ private equity deals made up 31% of the $124B deal flow dollars, as shown in the right-hand chart.  At the lower end of deal size, deals under $25M accounted for 37% of the deals, but just 1% of the deal dollars.

Private Equity Deals by Sector and Size in Two 100% Stacked Bar Charts

How I Made the 100% Stacked Bar Charts

Data on private equity deals by sector and size is presented below: 

The data on the left is for the by sector chart and the right side data is for the by size chart.

Here's how I made the left chart:

• add a half page 100% stacked bar chart to PowerPoint
• copy and paste the driving data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• hide the x and y axis
• show series name and calculated percentage in the segment labels
• adjust internal chart margins to make the chart area wider and longer
• change series colors
• in-place edit bar label for deal flow dollars bar to add the $ and B
• shrink font of materials and resources label to better fit in small segment

Here's how I made the right chart:

• copy and paste the left chart and move it to the right of the slide, aligned with the left chart
• open the chart
• replace the data with the private equity data by deal size
• in the Bars and Series dialog, create an Other series, label it $1B+ and combine the $1B-$2.5B and $2.5B+ into this new series

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• 50 Most Innovative Fintechs
• World's Largest Unicorns
• Funding of US Start-Ups

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There were nearly 72,000 women in the US who reported income of more than $500K to the IRS in 2016. That number has grown at 13% per year since 2009. The highest income segment (wages of $5M+) has grown at 28% over the same time period. 

By comparison, there were 405,000 high-income men in 2016. Note that the ratio of high-income men to women has fallen from 8.0 to 5.7 from 2009 to 2016.  Data for this chart came from Bloomberg's analysis of IRS data.  

High-Income American Women Stacked Bar Chart with CAGRs

How I Made the Stacked Bar Chart with CAGRs

Here is the data in the Mekko Graphics data editor. 

Here's how I made this chart:

• Add a Mekko Graphics chart to a PowerPoint slide
• Copy and paste the IRS data for 2009 to 2016 from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• Add the CAGR formula (=CAGR, first year, last year, number of years) for the first series and copy it down for other series
• Reduce chart margins to make the chart area wider and longer
• Under Bars and Series, on the Bars tab, make the last bar a CAGR column and remove it from the chart
• Under Bars and Series, on the Series, Visibility tab, remove the last 2 series from the chart, make them data rows and format the numbers under the Number Format column 
• On the Series, Style tab, change the colors for each series
• Add a legend to the chart and choose the position of Align to CAGR
• Under Show Labels, choose Values Only
• Add the thousands unit (K) in the Format Chart task pane on the Values tab
• Insert a growth line under Insert in the Edit Chart ribbon and select CAGR instead of Absolute in the Format Growth Line task pane

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• Gender Gap In Unpaid Care Work
• Doctoral Degrees by Field and Gender
• Growth in the Wealthy by Region

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The top 5 R&B/Hip Hop artists had the highest sales, but Ariana Grande was the top selling artist. In Pop, Country and Latin, the leading artist also had the top song for the genre. Data is for the first 24 weeks of 2019 from Nielsen's Mid-Year US Music Report.

It is interesting to see the impact of movies on music sales. For example, Queen was the top seller in the Rock genre, largely due to the Video on Demand release of the Bohemian Rhapsody film in February, 2019.

Drake did not have the top song in the R&B/Hip Hop genre, but he was featured in the top song for the Latin genre. In the Country genre, Kacey Musgraves did not make the top 5 despite winning the Grammy award for Album of the Year. 

Top Genre Artists in US Music Marimekko Chart

How I Made the Top Genre Artists in US Music Marimekko Chart

Here is the data in the Mekko Graphics data editor. 

Here's how I made this chart:

• Add a marimekko chart to a PowerPoint slide
• Copy the data for each genre from the Mid-Year US Music PDF and paste it into a separate column in Excel
• Copy and paste the data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• Reduce the chart margins to make the chart area wider 
• Under Bars and Series, on the Series tab, make the Top Song series a data row 
• On the Format Chart, General tab, choose to show Bar Totals and include Series and Value labels
• Move to the Values tab and choose a data scale value of 6 to convert segment values and bar totals to millions
• Add the millions unit (M) for the Bar Totals on the Values tab
• On the Sort tab, choose the Widest on Left option under Bars Display Order
• To color this chart, I used the Modern palette (5 shades for each color) with a Preference Manager setting of Color After Sort
• I manually edited the data row text by adding a carriage return before the artist name

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• Growth in US Music Industry Revenue
• Digital Subscriptions Dominate
• How Do We Spend Our Music Dollars?

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The scorching summer in the Northern Hemisphere has left many with a renewed appreciation for air conditioning.  June was the hottest June on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Temperatures in France reached all-time highs and other cities in North America, Europe and Asia experienced record heat waves in both June and July. If you have air conditioning, your energy costs soared along with the temperatures. However, you were at least able to mitigate the health risks associated with the heat.

There are 1.6B installed air conditioning units (AC) and 67% of them are in just 3 countries—China, the US and Japan. The current household penetration rate for air conditioning is above 90% in Japan and the US, but it is just 60% in China. It's below 20% in large, hot countries like Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and India.

Forecasters from the International Energy Agency (IEA) are projecting significant increases in air conditioning units due to factors like economic growth, urbanization and population growth. Data from the IEA was published in their Future of Cooling report.

Air Conditioning 100% Stacked Bar and Bar Mekko Charts

How I Made the Air Conditioning Units 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Here is the data for in the Mekko Graphics data editor. 

Here's how I made the 100% stacked bar chart:

• Add 2 charts to a PowerPoint slide under Insert Multiple Charts
• Select the first chart and choose 100% Stacked Bar under Type
• Copy and paste the IEA data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor for the first chart
• Reduce chart margins to make the chart area wider and longer
• Under Bars and Series, on the Bars tab, make the last bar a data column, format is to show as percent and remove it from the chart
• On the Series tab, create an Other series and include all series except China, US and Japan
• Under Show Labels, choose Show Values and Names, Calculated Percentages Only
• Convert the data to billions by choosing a data scale value of 3 on the Values tab under Format Chart
• Add the billions unit (B) to the bar total on the Values tab
• On the Sort tab, sort the series to show the biggest on the bottom 

How I Made the Air Conditioning Penetration Bar Mekko Chart

Here is the data in the Mekko Graphics Data Editor.

Here's how I made the bar mekko chart:

• Select the chart on the right side of the slide and choose Bar Mekko under Type
• Copy and paste the IEA data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor for the second chart
• Click on the Switch Bars and Series icon (top right) in the data editor
• Reduce the chart margins to make the chart area wider and longer
• Under Bars and Series, on the Bars Options tab, choose the Pop (M) series as the bar width
• On the Series, Visibility tab, remove the Pop (M) series from the chart but show it as a data row
• On the Sort tab, sort the bars to show the highest on the left
• Under Format Chart, General tab, remove the Grand Total from the chart and select Hide All labels
• Format the bar totals to show as percentages on the Values tab
• Color each bar to match its color on the first chart by right clicking on the bar and choosing the color from the segment drop down menu. Multi-select by the bars from the Other series (by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on each bar) and format them at the same time
• Under Axes, add a Y axis title with a top tick aligned position and hide the line, labels and tick marks
• Format the axis title font size to be 11 by right clicking on it
• Nudge the bar total labels and data row labels to improve readability

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• Worldwide Air Conditioning Capacity
• Changes in CO2 Emissions
• Global Energy Consumption

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Airline industry revenue data for 2019 showed the Top 10 airline routes (based on revenue) by airline. British Airways' New York (JFK) to London (LHR) route was the largest by revenue and was the only route to exceed $1B. Nine of the Top 10 routes actually posted revenue declines on a year over year basis. The Quantas Melbourne (MLB) to Sydney (SYD) route was the only one with a revenue gain.

Notice the variability in the revenue per hour (shown as the X axis on the bubble chart) for the top routes. British Airways had the highest revenue per hour while Air Canada had the lowest on its Vancouver (YVR) to Toronto (YYZ) route.

The revenue data was for the 12 months ended March, 2019 and was published by OAG. 

Top 10 Airline Routes Bubble Chart

How I Made the Top 10 Airline Routes Bubble Chart

Here is the data in the Mekko Graphics data editor. 

Here's how I made the bubble chart:

• Copy the data from the Top 10 Airline Routes OAG table into Excel
• Add the # ranking to the route (series name) and calculate the YOY change
• Select a palette in the Mekko Graphics Preference Manager with at least 9 colors to make it easy to apply chart colors
• Add a bubble chart to a PowerPoint slide 
• Copy and paste the data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor in PowerPoint
• Reduce the chart margins to make the chart area wider 
• Under Edit Chart, on the General tab, make the horizontal and vertical quadrant lines visible
• On the Values tab, format the Y axis to show as a % and add the $ as currency for the X axis
• Add a legend to the chart (using the data in the Group column) and format it to show in series order
• Under Format Axes, add a Y axis title with a position of Top Tick Aligned
• Change the scale for the Y axis to be -.25 to .05
• On the X axis tab, add the axis title and set the manual scale to be 10,000 to 30,000
• Add a title on the Reference Bubble tab and add a $ to the value
• Choose Select All Labels on the right click to format all chart labels to be the same size
• Manually drag the series labels that are overlapping
• Insert a carriage return in the labels that have a single line so they show on 2 lines

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• Which Airlines Have the Worst Delays
• Airline Baggage Fees
• Most Instagrammed Tourist Attractions

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US-based football, basketball and baseball teams make up 42 of the top fifty most valuable sports teams, as shown in this Marimekko chart.  NFL teams account for half of the top 50.  The Dallas Cowboys at $5B are the most valuable sports team, according to Forbes.  There are 10 NBA teams in the top 50, led by the $4B New York Knicks.  The New York Yankees at a $4.6B valuation lead the 7 MLB teams.  The eight European football teams represent the top leagues in Spain, England and Germany.  Real Madrid and Barcelona are the top two with values of $4.2B and $4B, respectively. 

Fifty Most Valuable Sports Teams in a Marimekko Chart with Data Row

How I Made this Marimekko Chart with Data Row

The data for this chart is presented below:

Here's how I made the Marimekko chart:

• create a data table in Excel with row for each team
• add a PivotTable to Excel to show the team data by sport
• insert a Mekko Graphics chart in PowerPoint based on the selected Excel data above
• add the data row to the Mekko Graphics Data Editor using the count function
• sort the data putting the widest bars on the left and the biggest series on the bottom
• set the coloring mode to color by bars and custom color each bar
• show values and labels in each segment and format values to show them in $B
• hide the bar totals and grand total
• hide axis lines, and tick marks
• make chart border white and segment borders narrower
• set bar width to be based on the data row (count of teams in each bar)
• adjust internal chart margins

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• 25 Most Valuable Sports Teams (an older data set represented in a bar chart provides another representation of similar data)
• Billionaire Sports Team Owners
• Most Valuable College Sports Conferences

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The Global 100 largest companies distributed 4.2% of their market capitalization in 2018 with tech firms relying more heavily on share buybacks and oil & gas and telecomms relying more on dividends, as shown in this stacked bar chart with data rows. Data comes from the PwC Global Top 100 companies by market capitalisation published in July 2019.

The 19 tech firms in the Global 100 distributed $164B through share buybacks and $74B in dividends, accounting for 2.5% and 1.6% of their market cap, respectively.  The 18 financial firms distributed $88B through share buybacks and $107B in dividends, accounting for 2.1% and 3.1% of their market cap.  The 9 oil & gas and 4 telecom companies relied almost exclusively on dividends, distributing less than .1% of their market cap through share buybacks.

Value Distribution in the Global 100 Companies in a Stacked Bar Chart with Data Rows

How I Made this Stacked Bar Chart with Data Rows

The Global 100 data for this chart is presented below:

Here's how I made the stacked bar chart with data rows:

• use pdftables to convert the data from the PwC report into a form that I can copy and paste into Excel
• create a Mekko Graphics chart in PowerPoint based on the Excel data
• use the switch bars and series to treat the spreadsheet columns as series and the rows as bars
• edit some of the bar and series labels to make them more readable in the chart
• use Format Bars and Series dialog to specify which series to be displayed on chart, as data rows, or ignored, to add data row totals and to format data rows
• adjust the internal margins to make room for the data rows
• select data row labels and unclick autowrap to show them on one line
• show values in segments and format them as percentages
• format bar totals as percentages
• use format axis task pane to hide y axis, x axis line and to adjust the y axis maximum from 7% to 6.5%
• add a legend and move it to the top of the chart area
• add average line, reduce its width and change its title to show as Global 100
• move labels that overlap average line

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• Private Equity Deals by Sector and Size
• Amazon's Q1 2019 Results
• 50 Most Innovative Fintechs

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The top 5 squads in the biggest leagues in European football account for between 50-75% of each league’s total transfer expenditure, as shown in this Marimekko chart.  English Premier League teams spent the most with Manchester City's squad costing over 1B euros. Spain's La Liga and France's Ligue 1 were the most top heavy with 5 squads spending 75% of the league's total.  Data from CIES Football Observatory as of September 2019.

Value of European Football Squads in a Marimekko Chart with Data Rows

How I Made this Marimekko Chart with Data Rows

A snapshot of the data on the transfer spending for each European Football squad and a related PivotTable is shown below:

Here's how I made the Marimekko chart with data rows:

• copy the data from the CIES website into a word document
• convert the text to a table in word and copy the table into Excel
• create a PivotTable from the table with rows for each European football team and columns for each league
• create a Mekko Graphics chart in PowerPoint based on the data in the PivotTable (excluding total row and column)
• use the sum and count formulas in the Mekko Graphics Data Editor to add data rows for number of teams and average spend per team in each league
• add an "Other Series" in Format Bars and Series tab to group spend from the smallest teams in each league
• sort data so that the biggest series are on the bottom and widest bars are on the left
• use Color by Bars in Format Chart to give all teams in each league a unique color
• adjust internal chart margins to maximize space for the chart area
• show data values with labels in each segment
• format data values and bar totals to show as millions of euros
• show percentage of total next to bar totals (available on right-click menu for bar total)
• format average value data row to show as millions of euros
• uncheck autowrap for data row labels to have them display on a single line
• color all segments, except for top 5 in each league in light gray to highlight percentage of spend accounted for by top 5

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• Fifty Most Valuable Sports Teams
• 20 Highest Paid Athletes
• Top English Premier League Goal Scorers

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Pedestrian fatalities have been rising at about 5%/year and reached 6,283 in 2018, as shown in the bar chart on the left. They are more likely to occur after dark and there’s a good chance that pedestrian and/or driver is alcohol impaired, as shown in the right 100% stacked bar chart. Pedestrian fatalities are most likely to occur on major streets, although 16% occur on freeways. Passenger cars are involved 42% of the time and vans, trucks and buses are involved only 12% of the time. Pedestrian fatalities data come from the Governors Highway Safety Association.

Pedestrian Fatalities in 2009-2018 in a Bar Chart with Growth Line and 2018 Profile in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart

How I Made this Bar Chart and 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Pedestrian fatalities data for these charts are presented below:

Here's how I made the bar chart on the left:

• use a pdf to csv converter to extract (e.g., pdftables) to extract the pedestrian fatalities data from the GHSA pdf
• create a stacked bar chart in PowerPoint from the Excel data range shown on the left (A1:B11)
• adjust the chart size to be a 1/2 page chart and place it on the left hand side of the slide
• use Switch Bars and Series button in Edit Chart ribbon to treat rows as bars
•  add the y axis
• hide segment labels and y axis (except for title)
• change series colors
• adjust internal chart margins
• add growth line and display CAGR value in label

Here's how I made the 100% stacked bar chart on the right:

• copy and paste the bar chart and place it to the right of the bar chart
• change its position to be to the right of the bar chart
• type in the pedestrian fatalities data on the right into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• show labels and values in all bars and format the values to show as a percentage
• add the y axis title
• hide the y axis (except for title) and adjust the bar gaps to make the bars larger
• reduce the size or hide the labels in smaller segments
• use a custom sort order for the bars to show them in the order as in the chart above
• adjust the series colors to make each bar shades of a different color

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• Most Dangerous US Cities for Pedestrians
• Ten Worst US Traffic Corridors
• Traffic Costs in America's Most Congested Cities

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