I produced this lollipop chart for a Makeover Monday post where I redesigned a pie and column chart found in a report published by the Mental Health Commission of Canada. There were way too many categories for a pie chart to handle, and the way they transformed the data to make it sum to 100% didn’t really make sense.
Lollipop charts are a great way to visualize the results of multi-select questions (i.e. “select all that apply”) on surveys, especially when there were many options to choose from and respondents typically chose a lot of them. In this case, the bars of bar charts tend to take up too much of our chart’s real estate, but a lollipop’s dots draw the eye to where it needs to be.