Thirty percent of U.S. adults say they have used online dating, as shown in this horizontal 100% stacked bar chart. Younger, urban and lower income adults are more likely to have used online dating sites or apps. The largest difference was between those who identified as LGB (55% reported using online dating site or app) and those who identified as straight (28%). Gender, education level and racial differences were much smaller. Data were reported by Pew Research.

Online Dating Users Profile in a Horizontal 100% Stacked Bar Chart

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How I Made this Online Dating Horizontal 100% Stacked Bar Chart 

Here is the online dating data I used to create the chart:

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There are two Mekko Graphics features that I wanted to highlight in this chart. I used these features to group the bars. Bar gaps are separators between two bars. I added one between the 'Women' bar and the '18-29' bar. You add a bar gap by clicking on the x axis (in this case the vertical axis) between the two bars. Drag the gray arrow that appears until the mouse-over says "Add 1 Gap." This gives the spacing that allows for the grouping that is shown in the chart. I also added a data column in column D above and used it for the group labels. These labels appear to the right of the chart by default. I moved them to the left, aligned their lefts, centered them in their respective groups, and then bolded them.

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

• type the series labels into column A from the Pew Research report
• enter the Yes data into column B and use a formula =1-Bx to compute the data in column C
• add data in D to provide group headers as described above
• use Switch bars and Series button to treat rows as bars and columns as series
• show column D as a data column
• add the bar gaps as described above to separate the groups
• reduce the space between bars to 0 to place the ungapped bars next to each other
• adjust the internal chart margins to leave room on right for headers and little room on top and bottom
• move data column labels to right as described above
• reduce segment borders to .25
• show values as percentage in each segment
• lasso and hide percentage labels in right segment of each bar
• change series colors to blue and gray as in chart
• add y axis title as in chart and move to top of bar, make italic and left align with data column labels

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• Smartphone Multiplier
• Time Spent on Digital Media
• American's Breakfast Preferences

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Home/mobile consumers account for most of the growth in the $101B entertainment market, as shown in the top stacked bar chart. Theatrical viewers went from 52% to just 42% of the global entertainment viewers and grew at 2% between 2015 and 2019. Over the same time period, the home/mobile market grew at 13% and the overall market grew at 8% per year. 

Digital has replaced physical distribution for home/mobile viewers, as shown in the bottom stacked bar chart. Digital grew 31% per year and went from 46% to 83% of home/mobile entertainment dollars spent.  Over the same time period, physical sales (e.g., DVDs) decreased at 15% per year, falling from $20B to just $10B. Data are from the Motion Picture Association 2019 Theme Report.

Global Entertainment Market in 2015-2019 in Two Stacked Bar Charts with Growth Line and CAGR Column

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How I Made these Global Entertainment Market Stacked Bar Charts:

The entertainment market data used for both charts are presented below:

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Here's how I made the top stacked bar chart:

• use "Insert Multiple Charts" on the Mekko Graphics ribbon in PowerPoint to create "Two Charts Top/Bottom"
• open the top chart and enter the data for 2015-2019 theatrical, physical and digital from the Motion Picture Association 2019 Theme Report page 8
• use a sum formula to create the home/mobile row and the CAGR formula to create the CAGR column
• with the right-click in cells A2 and A3 do not display these series in this top chart
• similarly, right-click in G1 to display this column as a CAGR column
• add the y axis title and hide the other y axis elements and the x axis line
• show the legend and align it with the CAGR column
• adjust internal chart margins and make bar gaps wider
• add growth line with display set to CAGR without parentheses and adjust y axis maximum
• update the series colors

Close and copy this chart. Delete the bottom chart and put this copied chart in its place. Change the rows displayed as series in the bottom chart to show physical and digital, adjust colors and y axis title and maximum. The charts will be similar in appearance and aligned properly.

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• Music Streaming Growth
• Best Picture Nominees' Box Office Revenue
• American Moviegoers by Age and Ethnicity

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The five tech giants lost 24% of their market capitalization between February 21, 2020 and March 23, 2020, as shown in this cluster bar chart with bar comparison lines. Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook lost 24%, 28% 29% and 30%, respectively. Amazon fared best among the tech giants losing only 9% of its market cap. Among the tech giants, only Microsoft maintained its $1T+ valuation. Apple, Amazon and Google went from $1T+ to under $1T between the market high February 21 and its trough on March 23. Data came from Ycharts.

Tech Giants Market Cap Decline in a Cluster Bar Chart with Bar Comparison Lines

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How I Made this Cluster Bar Chart with Bar Comparison Lines

Here is the tech giants market cap data I used to create the cluster bar chart:

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Here's how I made the chart:

• type the tech giants data from the ycharts website
• press the switch bars and series button to treat rows as bars (e.g., company names) and columns as series (dates)
• use formulas to compute the total decline and percentage decline and add them to the data sheet as shown
• display rows 7 and 8 as data rows, noting that there is a blank space in cell A8
• show legends at bottom of the chart
• show values in the bars of the chart
• add bar comparison lines within each cluster bar and show values and percentages in the bar comparison line labels
• change the bar comparison line color and text color to red 
• using right-click, select all bar comparison line labels, y axis label and segment label and use and in #,# number format of $B
• in format axis task pane, show gridlines, hide y axis line and tick marks and x axis line and show number format on all y axis values
• move labels for the data column items to form a single data column, set label colors to red and underline label header
• change series colors
• adjust internal chart margins and bar gaps

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• Tech Giants Revenue Mix
• Tech Giants Profit Growth
• Apple Revenue and Expense Profile

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While individuals receive the largest share of the CARES Act stimulus package, loans to large companies is the largest segment at $425B or 21% of the total, as shown in this Marimekko chart. The bulk of CARES Act relief to individuals will come in cash payments ($300B) and extra unemployment benefits ($260B). Other large amounts are for new small business loans ($350B) and aid to state and local governments ($340B). The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security act was passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data for this chart came from Visual Capitalist.

CARES Act Stimulus Bill Spending in a Marimekko Chart

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How I Made this CARES Act Stimulus Spending Marimekko Chart 

Here is the CARES Act data I used to create the Marimekko chart:

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Since each bar has a unique set of segments, the data are on a diagonal in the Mekko Graphics Data Editor with only one entry for each row in its proper column.

Here's how I made the CARES Act Marimekko chart:

• add a Marimekko chart to the PowerPoint slide and type the data from Visual Capitalist as above
• hide the grand total, y axis, and x axis line
• adjust the internal chart margins to have the chart fill the entire width of the PowerPoint container
• in the Values tab of Format Chart, select grand total in the Calculated Percentage section to make segment percentages calculated with respect to the chart total and not the bar totals
• format segment values and bar totals as $B
• display the series name, segment value and calculated percentage in each segment and the bar total and calculated percentage at the top of each bar
• reduce label sizes in smaller segments and annotate the two smallest segments
• adjust colors in each segment to make each bar shades of a different color

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• Child Malnutrition Worldwide
• Public and Private College Costs
• China's Global Spending

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Overview – This is a major release that introduces several new features

New Capabilities:

1. 1. Weekends in Gantt can be hidden and which days make up a weekend can be designated
   2. Primary Y axis can be moved to right side of chart
   3. Ability to select multiple bubbles at once, right-click and change the bubble order implemented
   4. Ability to manually set start and end of axis breaks implemented

1. 5. Base (background) color for labels on patterned segment can be set as white, transparent, or colored
   6. Ability to clear most recently used custom colors within Mekko Graphics implemented
   7. Custom sorting for area charts implemented
   8. Setting Legend colors improved
   9. Y axis line properties - tick marks and line visibility, color, width – are copied when adding 2Y axis
   10. Custom segment borders handling improved

Corrected issues:

1. Clarified a “No sort” option to First on Bottom (UI issue fixed)

2. Axis breaks in cascades with negative segments fixed for many cases

1.  Note: This release is free to Mekko Graphics customers with active annual subscriptions. There is no free upgrade for perpetual license customers (e.g., customers who purchased on or before February 1, 2012). Click here for more information

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While the most COVID-19 cases to date have been reported in the US, European countries have the highest ratio of cases per capita, as shown in these two horizontal bar charts. Data are from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases report and are as of April 9. Reported cases and cases per capita are functions of both the number of infected people and the degree to which each country is testing for the novel coronavirus.

The US had 432,438 reported COVID-19 cases, which is far more than Spain, Italy and Germany which have over 100,000 each. Another 7 European countries, China, Iran, Canada, Brazil, and South Korea have 10,000 or more reported cases. 

Spain has 3,170 COVID-19 cases per million inhabitants.  Switzerland, Italy and Belgium each have over 2,000 cases per million.  Austria, Germany, US, Portugal, France and the Netherlands all have between 1,000 and 2,000 COVID-19 cases per million.  

COVID-19 Cases by Country in Total and per Million Inhabitants in Two Horizontal Bar Charts

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How I Made These COVID-19 Cases by Country Horizontal Bar Charts

The COVID-19 by country data used for both of these charts are presented below:

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

• scrape the COVID-19 cases data from Johns Hopkins and worldometers websites into Excel
• use a formula to compute Cases per million
• create a horizontal stacked bar chart in PowerPoint from the Excel data range above
• 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
• using Bars and Series form, show data from column B only, choose bar colors to indicate region as shown in legend above and set sort order to tallest on top
• hide the x axis line, y axis line, and tick marks and enter the y axis title
• hide segment labels
• adjust internal chart margins

Here's how I made the horizontal bar chart on the right:

• copy the left chart
• use Bars and Series to show data in column D only on chart
• change the y axis title

I added the legend using text boxes in PowerPoint and used the Standard Colors button in the Mekko Graphics Tools ribbon to set the legend colors to be the same as the corresponding chart colors.

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• CARES Act $2T Stimulus Bill
• Child Malnutrition Worldwide
• China's Global Spending

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A market map provides an overview of a market in a single chart. Often the term "market map" is used interchangeably with its chart type, the marimekko chart. The market map is one of the charts preferred by strategy consultants and it is featured in 10 Strategy Charts, a guide for strategy professionals.

In the example below, you can see that the medical device market is fragmented and each category has a different market leader.

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Use a Market Map to Answer These Questions

• What are the largest segments in the market?
• How does competition vary by region?
• Which categories are ripe for consolidation?
• Where are the growth opportunities?

Tips/Best Practices

• Use data for a single time period
• Group smaller segments into an “Other” series to improve readability
• Sort your data so that the biggest bars are on the left and biggest series are on the bottom
• Exclude a series from sorting if you want it to always appear on the bottom or top of each bar

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Eighty per cent of the 133,359 COVID-19 deaths are concentrated in 7 countries with 20% in the US, as shown in this 100% stacked bar chart.  The seven other countries are mostly in Europe--Italy, Spain, France, United Kingdom, and Belgium, with Iran being the other.  COVID-19 deaths data were compiled by worldometer on April 15.

The 27,886 US COVID-19 deaths are also concentrated. There were 10,834 in New York, which is 39% of the total in the US. New Jersey accounted for 10% (2,805). Two other states, Michigan and Louisiana, had over 1,000 deaths. 

COVID-19 Deaths by Country and by State in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart with Exploding Bar

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How I Made This COVID-19 Deaths by Country and State 100% Stacked Bar Chart

The COVID-19 deaths data by country and state used for this charts is presented below:

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

• start with the total COVID-19 deaths worldwide and within the US in B2 and C2 above
• add formulas to B3 and C4 (e.g., =B2-SUM(B4:B14)) in B3
• these formulas will update the Rest of World and Rest of US segments as we add more countries and states below, allowing us to see how many countries and states should be added to make the most informative chart
• use segment links from top and bottom of US segment to top and bottom of US bar to create the exploding bar
• show labels in both bars and have labels contain name, value and percentage
• sort series with biggest on bottom, but exclude rest of world and rest of US from sort
• change series colors to make US and states shades of blue, European countries shades of green, and rest of world and rest of US gray.
• annotate labels in smaller segments
• adjust internal margins, hide axis lines and tick marks

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• COVID-19 Cases by Country
• CARES Act $2T Stimulus Bill
• Child Malnutrition Worldwide

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Covid-19 deaths may be significantly under-reported. The New York Times estimated that there could be 26,000 unreported deaths by comparing the normal number of deaths, actual deaths, and number of deaths attributed to COVID-19. The excess COVID-19 deaths are largest in Spain, France, England & Wales and New York City, as shown in these cascade charts.

Unreported COVID-19 Deaths in 4 Cascade Charts with Bar Comparison Lines

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How I Made These Unreported COVID-19 Deaths Cascade Charts

The unreported COVID-19 deaths data for Spain is below:

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Here's how I made the top left cascade chart:

• insert four charts into PowerPoint using the Insert Multiple Charts button in the Mekko Graphics Charts ribbon
• delete all but the one in the upper left
• open this chart and change its type to cascade
• the three data points taken from a table in the New York Times article and used to create the chart were the percentage above normal, excess deaths, and reported COVID-19 deaths
• formulas were used to calculate normal number of deaths, possible COVID-19 deaths and total deaths
• choose Switch Bars and Series to treat the rows as bars
• hide the bar with pct above normal data and show total deaths as a total cascade bar
• use data scale to divide numbers by 1,000
• add segments links and the bar comparison line with values and percentage
• format the bar totals and bar comparison line values to have a K as a suffix and to be one decimal place
• adjust internal chart margins
• add the x axis title and make bold
• hide the x axis line and y axis
• adjust the internal chart margins
• add axis breaks and format as a diagonal line
• change segment colors

I then copied this chart and updated the data to create the other three charts on the slide.

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• COVID-19 Deaths by Country
• COVID-19 Cases by Country
• CARES Act $2T Stimulus Bill

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WHO contributions are evenly split among the Americas, Europe and Asia. The Americas contributed $164M or 34% of the 2020 WHO budget. Europe and Asia followed with $156M (32%) and $150M (31%), respectively. Countries in Oceania and Africa in total  contributed 3% to the World Health Organization.

Among individual countries, the US is the largest contributor and it made 24% of WHO contributions. China contributed about half as much as the US. The next largest contributors were Japan, Germany, UK and France.

WHO Contributions in a Marimekko Chart

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How I Made this WHO Contributions Marimekko Chart 

Here is the WHO contributions data I used to create the Marimekko chart:

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The data for this chart came from a table that listed the 196 countries that contributed to the WHO and a second list that mapped countries to continents (found in a Google search). I used an Excel VLOOKUP to add continent to the WHO list in an extra column, filling in by hand any that were missed by the VLOOKUP.  I then converted this data to the PivotTable shown above.

Here's how I made the WHO contributions Marimekko chart:

• add a Marimekko chart in PowerPoint based on the WHO contributions Excel PivotTable data shown above
• switch to narrow margins to maximize chart area
• use data scaling in Format Chart, Numbers to change the data in dollars to millions of dollars
• set the percentage calculations for segment values to the grand total (instead of bar totals)
• in Format Bars and Series, create an "Other" series and place all series with values less than $1M in Other, reducing the 196 series to a more readable number
• add smaller segments from Americas, Europe and Asia to Other individually to increase readability
• show names, values and percentages in segments
• hide labels for Other segments Oceania and Africa
• reduce font sizes of 
• adjust the internal chart margins to have the chart fill the entire width of the PowerPoint container
• in the Values tab of Format Chart, select grand total in the Calculated Percentage section to make segment percentages calculated with respect to the chart total and not the bar totals
• format segment values and bar totals as $B
• display the series name, segment value and calculated percentage in each segment and the bar total and calculated percentage at the top of each bar
• reduce label sizes in smaller segments, make Australia label vertical and annotate to the right New Zealand, South Africa and Nigeria
• adjust colors in each segment

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• Unreported COVID-19 Deaths
• COVID-19 Cases by Country
• CARES Act $2T Stimulus Bill

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Tech giants lost $1.28T in value in a little over one month and then gained it all back, as shown in this cluster bar chart with bar comparison lines and data column. Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook lost 24%, 28%, 29% and 30% respectively. Amazon fared the best among the tech giants, losing only 9% of its market cap.

Three of five tech giants were worth more on May 6 than on February 21. Amazon was 13% above its February 21 value. Microsoft and Facebook were 3% and 1% above their February 21 values. Apple was 4% below and Google 8% below. Overall, the 5 tech giants gained $1.32T in value from March 23 and were net up $42B from the February 21 market high. Market capitalization data are from Yahoo Finance.

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How I Made this Cluster Bar Chart with Bar Comparison Lines

Here is the market cap data I used to create the cluster bar chart:

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Here's how I made the chart:

• start with the tech giants market cap decline chart 
• add May 6 market cap data from Yahoo Finance
• use formulas to compute cumulative decline, cumulative rebound and net change and add to Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• show rows 7 and 8 as data columns in chart, noting that there is a blank space in cells A7 and A8
• show bar comparison lines within each cluster bar and show values and percentages in the bar comparison line labels
• adjust internal chart margins and move data columns to appear in upper right
• align and distribute data column entries
• adjust y axis tick interval and hide y axis labels at $250B and $750B
• add x axis title for Market Capitalization on and align with legend
• change series color for May 6 data

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• Tech Giants Market Cap Decline
• Tech Giants Revenue Mix
• Tech Giants Profit Growth

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Private sector employment decreased by over 20 million jobs or 16% between March and April, as shown in this waterfall chart. March employment was 129 million jobs according to the ADP National Employment Report. April employment fell to 109 million.

The leisure and hospitality sector was hit hardest. It lost 8.6 million jobs, which was a 51% decline between March and April. Other sectors experienced smaller losses as measured in both absolute number of jobs and in percentage change. The trade, transportation and utilities sector lost 3.4 million jobs (12% decline), construction lost 2.5 million (33%), and manufacturing lost 1.7 million (13%).

COVID Impact on US Employment in a Cascade/Waterfall Chart with Data Row

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How I Made this Cascade/Waterfall Chart with Data Row

Here is the ADP employment data I used to create the cascade/waterfall chart:

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Here's how I made the chart:

• start with the Excel download of ADP employment data
• add the calculations for change from April to May in absolute terms and in percentages
• create a cascade chart in PowerPoint and copy the relevant data from Excel into the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• move data for smaller sectors into third row of chart and then add them to the other sector
• show the % change as a data row
• add the bar comparison line and show value and percentage
• use data scale to change numbers from thousands to millions
• format bar totals and bar comparison line value to add M as suffix and show with one decimal place
• add y axis title and hide axis line, tick marks and values
• add axis break to shrink bars for March and April
• set coloring mode to color by bars
• change color of April bar to match March
• adjust internal margins and bar gaps
• manually edit data row label to show on two lines

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• Tech Giants Market Cap Decline
• COVID-19 Cases by Country
• CARES Act $2T Stimulus Bill

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Covid-19 has affected Black Americans more than other racial groups, as shown in this 100% stacked bar chart. While Blacks make up 12.5% of the US population and 18.2% in places where Covid-19 deaths are occurring, they account for 22.4% of deaths. Data are from the National Center for Health Statistics and were reported in the Wall Street Journal on May 15, 2020.

Other racial groups are less affected. Hispanics account for 18.3% of the US population and 26.8% in places where Covid-19 deaths are occurring, they account for 16.6% of deaths. Asian Americans account for 5.7% of the US population and 11.5% in places where Covid-19 deaths are occurring, they account for only 5.8% of deaths. Non-Hispanic Whites account for 60.4% of the US population and 41.4% in places where Covid-19 deaths are occurring, they account for  only 52.3% of deaths.

US Covid-19 Deaths by Race in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart

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How I Made this 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Here is the data I used to create the 100% stacked bar chart:

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Here's how I made the chart:

• type the Covid-19 deaths data from the Wall Street Journal article in the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• custom sort the bars to display with share of population on the left and share of deaths on the right
• custom sort the series so that Blacks appear at the bottom of each bar
• color the series so that Blacks are light blue and all other groups are light gray to make the message of the chart stand out more
• hide the x and y axes
• adjust internal margins and bar gaps

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• Unreported Covid-19 Deaths
• COVID-19 Cases by Country
• CARES Act $2T Stimulus Bill

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For most states, the majority of Covid-19 deaths were in long-term care facilities, as shown in this horizontal bar chart. For the country as a whole, 42% of all Covid-19 deaths were in long-term care facilities. Minnesota's 635 Covid deaths in long-term care were 81% of the state's total Covid deaths.  Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut all had 70% or more of their Covid deaths among long-term care facility occupants.  At the other extreme, only 20%  of New York's Covid deaths and 24% of Nevada's were long-term care related. Even though New York's percentage was lowest, it had the greatest number of deaths in long-term care at 5,847. Data were compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation and came from 37 states as of May 21, 2020.

COVID Deaths at Long-Term Care Facilities in a Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Column and Average Line

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How I Made this Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Column and Average Line

Here is the long-term care data I used to create the horizontal bar chart:

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Here's how I made the chart:

• start with the Excel download of the KFF data
• create a Mekko Graphics horizontal bar chart in PowerPoint based on the Excel data
• use Switch Bars and Series to treat rows as bars
• remove extraneous columns from the Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• treat column B as a data column
• adjust internal margins, bar gaps and y axis scale to maximize chart's horizontal area
• shrink chart fonts to 9 point
• add average line and set to 42%
• insert y axis title and hide other y axis elements and x axis line
• edit data column header to fit on 2 lines
• change series color to grey and segment color for New York to red
• bold data column entry for New York
• format bar totals to display as percentage

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• US Covid-19 Deaths by Race
• COVID-19 Cases by Country
• Unreported Covid-19 Deaths

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The Covid pandemic ended the season in France’s Ligue 1 and extended the season in other top European football leagues well into their summer breaks, as shown in this Gantt chart. All five top European football leagues started their 2019-20 fixtures between the 9th and 24th of August and all stopped playing between the 8th and 11th of March. The Bundesliga restarted in mid-May and will wrap up by the end of June. La Liga, EPL and Serie A plan to restart in June and will finish between mid-July and early August.

European Football Schedule Delays in a Gantt Chart

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How I Made This Gantt Chart

The original 2019-20 schedules of the five European football leagues, the delays and the planned finishes are available from various online sources with Wikipedia the best option. Here's how I made the chart:

• created a Gantt chart in PowerPoint
• set my calendar to go from August 1, 2019 to August 10, 2020
• displayed year and month in  calendar headers
• added two extra columns for country and number of games
• typed in the league names, country and number of games information into the tasks and left hand chart columns
• added bars for pre-Covid fixtures and post-break fixtures for each league
• set date format in  Format chart to dd-mmm and added task shading
• displayed start and end dates in each bar and added text for pre-Covid and post-break
• set bar height to 75 point
• added milestones with date and text
• changed colors of bars
• adjusted size of columns

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• Game Action in Sports Broadcasts
• Top Sports Rivalries
• Most Expensive Footballers

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Private sector employment decreased by 2.8M jobs or 3% in May. The decline in April was much steeper with 19.6M jobs lost. Data for the two months are combined into this waterfall chart that is based on the ADP National Employment Report.

The leisure and hospitality sector was hit hardest in March. It lost 7.7 million jobs. Other sectors experienced smaller employment losses in April. In May, the trade/transportation and utilities sector lost .8M jobs, which followed a 3.1M job loss in April. The healthcare sector also suffered large job losses in both months--2.1M in April and .3M in May.

US Employment Change in a Cascade/Waterfall Chart with Bar Comparison Lines

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How I Made this Cascade/Waterfall Chart with Bar Comparison Lines

Here is the ADP employment data I used to create the cascade/waterfall chart:

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Here's how I made the chart:

• create a cascade chart in PowerPoint and type data from ADP data download into Mekko Graphics Data Editor
• add the bar comparison lines and show value and percentage
• use data scale to change numbers from thousands to millions
• format bar totals and bar comparison line value to add M as suffix and show with one decimal place
• hide y axis line, tick marks and values
• add axis break to shrink bars for March, April and May
• set coloring mode to color by bars
• change color of April and May bars to match March and to set healthcare and other bars in May to be same color as the same sector's bars in April
• adjust internal margins and bar gaps
• manually edit bar labels to make them multi-line with hyphens where needed

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There is a significant wealth gap between black and white households in the US. Black households have 153% lower median net worth and 26% lower income than white households. They are also less likely to own a home, business and stock, as shown in these cluster bar charts with bar comparison lines. Data on net worth and income are from a Federal Reserve study and data on asset holdings are from a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland report.

 Racial Wealth Gap in Cluster Bar Charts with Bar Comparison Lines

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How I Made these Wealth Gap Cluster Bar Charts with Bar Comparison Lines

Here is the wealth gap data I used to create the cluster bar charts:

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Here's how I made the net worth and income chart on the left:

• create a half slide chart in PowerPoint, set the type to cluster bar
• type in wealth gap data as shown in the left range above
• use switch bars and series button to treat the columns as series and the rows as bars (clusters)
• add a legend and move it to the bottom
• add the y axis tittle and remove other parts of y axis and x axis line
• adjust bar gaps and internal chart margins
• add bar comparison lines
• format the bar totals in $K
• change the series colors

Close the chart, copy it and paste a copy to create the right hand chart. Replace the data with the data on the right hand side in the above spreadsheet. Change the y axis title and the number formatting for the bar totals.

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• US Covid-19 Deaths by race
• Hate Crimes in the US
• Immigrants Drive Growth in US Workforce

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