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Discover 20 Essential Types Of Graphs And Charts And When To Use Them

datapine

1) Number Chart When to use A real-time number chart is essentially a ticker that will give you an immediate overview of a particular KPI. For example, if you are tracking total sales for the current quarter, compare that data to the same quarter last year (or last period – depending on your story).

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

One more metric I love and adore highlighting to the senior leaders in companies is the KPI Page Value in Google Analytics. It is pretty interesting that while bluenile kissed kay in Sept 2013, it never comes close to Kay, who is pulling way in 2014. Nice set of benchmarks for people at bluenile to shoot for, no?). Blood everywhere.