Gauge graphs are based on the numerous dials found in automobile dashboards and aircraft cockpits.
In this tutorial I’ll show how to make bullet graphs in Excel, using a simplified approach that works for horizontal and vertical bullet charts. On one side, there are myriad gauge designs on the other are more effective charts, notably Stephen Few’s Bullet Graphs. With the recent obsession with dashboard displays of business data, this struggle has come to a head. People have struggled for a long time to find effective means of displaying single points of data.
