Well, moving on from the Sparkline shape in my previous post, this time I thought I’d look at how to go about building a Bullet Graph using Visio. To quote its inventor, Stephen Few, a Bullet Graph “is designed to display a key measure, along with a comparative measure and qualitative ranges to instantly declare if the measure is good, bad or in some other state.”
If you want more details on Bullet Graphs or dashboard design in general then I recommend you buy his book “Information Dashboard Design”. For this post I’m going to concentrate on how to build the shape itself…
