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- What Is A Mekko Chart?
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- Criticisms of Mekko Charts
- How to Create A Mekko Chart in PowerPoint
A Mekko chart (also known as a Marimekko chart) is a two-dimensional stacked chart with varying column widths. The easiest way to imagine a Mekko chart is to think of a column chart with no gaps between the columns and variable column widths. Each column can be a standalone or a stacked column that contains multiple series. There are two types of M...
Mekko charts are commonly used in strategy consulting presentations because they are a quick way to show multiple insights in a single visualization. Marimekko charts are most commonly used when you have two categorical variables (e.g. industry and company), one quantitative variable (e.g. market capitalization), and want to compare each category a...
Although Mekko charts are quite common in consulting presentations, they have a number of criticisms: 1. They are difficult to interpret. People are good comparing distances (e.g. in a bar or column chart) but not very good at comparing areas (e.g. in a Mekko chart). Because of this, it takes longer for people to interpret Mekko charts. 2. You can’...
Excel and PowerPoint do not support Mekko charts natively. There are ways to create a Mekko chart in Excel and PowerPoint but they require you to create a stacked areas chart and apply some hacks to make it look like a Mekko chart. The better way is to use a PowerPoint charting add-in to create a Mekko chart. There are a few add-ins that support Me...
DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION. Download for Windows. Mekko Graphics 22.1.0.3233 released on January 2022. See What's New or View Release Notes. Download for Mac OS X. Mekko Graphics 21.4.100.738 released on October 2021. View Release Notes. This version supports macOS Big Sur and Monterey.
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Dec 17, 2021 · A Mekko chart let’s you use the width of the columns to bring in an additional variable. In this example the width of the columns represents the total amount of revenue for each company. As the widest column Posh has the greatest amount of total revenue at 88 million. Likewise Rhoog has the narrowest column, and also the least amount of ...
A Mekko chart with units (sometimes also called submarine chart or olympic chart) is a two-dimensional stacked chart. As in the regular stacked chart, the value axis and the datasheet of this chart are based on absolute values. Width and height are controlled completely independently. Column widths are entered in the X extent row on top and ...
Feb 12, 2016 · The Mekko chart visual also allows you to control the legends, data colors, and data labels for a truly customized presentation. To use, simply download the Mekko diagram from the Visuals gallery and import it to your Power BI report and use it.
