Tire Fill Chart

It is the invisible architecture that allows a brand to speak with a clear and consistent voice across a thousand different touchpoints. It’s the visual equivalent of elevator music. This single, complex graphic manages to plot six different variables on a two-dimensional surface: the size of the army, its geographical location on a map, the direction of its movement, the temperature on its brutal winter retreat, and the passage of time. It’s how ideas evolve. 81 A bar chart is excellent for comparing values across different categories, a line chart is ideal for showing trends over time, and a pie chart should be used sparingly, only for representing simple part-to-whole relationships with a few categories. Unlike its more common cousins—the bar chart measuring quantity or the line chart tracking time—the value chart does not typically concern itself with empirical data harvested from the external world.