Grouped Bars — Revenue by Region and Year
Two years of regional revenue as grouped bars on a baseline of zero. The zero baseline is not a stylistic choice: a bar encodes quantity by length, so a cut baseline turns a three per cent difference into what looks like a threefold one, and this is the figure people cut most often.
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title: Revenue by region
subtitle: Reported, unaudited, constant currency
y: Revenue (£m)
grid: y
legend: right
bar "FY24": North 12.4, South 9.1, East 7.8, West 11.2, Central 6.3
bar "FY25": North 14.1, South 8.4, East 9.9, West 12.6, Central 7.7
note: The y axis reaches zero. A bar chart whose baseline does not is comparing lengths that do not correspond to the quantities they are drawn from.