For this week’s post, I decided to make a lollipop chart using a dataset that displaying how many hours per week people spend on different digital activities like social media, streaming, and gaming. I made it in Excel using the method shown in Chapter 5, where you turn a line chart into a clean visual with circular markers and drop lines to represent each value.
What I like about the lollipop chart is that it gives you the same information as a bar chart but looks a lot cleaner. Instead of thick bars, you just get thin lines with dots connecting them to their position on the y axis. The dots naturally draw your attention to the data points value, which makes the data easier to compare at a glance than even a bar chart, at least in my opinion.
I think lollipop charts work best when you have a few categories and you want to emphasize the values quickly rather than chart design. It greatly reduces visual clutter making it very well suited for small datasets. Overall, it’s a simple but effective chart type that makes information look modern and easy to comprehend.
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