{"id":905,"date":"2017-09-05T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2021-01-27T06:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:41:51","slug":"column-charts-hide-signal-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/column-charts-hide-signal-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Bar Charts Hide The Signal in Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The July\/August 2017 HealthLeaders magazine had a series of charts about the impact of Adverse Events. In general, the magazine used column charts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-line-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-line-chart.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-line-chart-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-line-chart-115x83.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But wouldn&#8217;t a Pareto chart illuminate the important adverse events more clearly? The first three accounted for over 57% of 2013 deaths.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-Pareto-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-Pareto-chart.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-Pareto-chart-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adverse-Events-Deaths-Pareto-chart-115x93.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July\/August 2017 HealthLeaders magazine had a series of charts about the impact of Adverse Events. In general, the magazine used column charts: But wouldn&rsquo;t a Pareto chart illuminate the important adverse events more clearly? The first three accounted for over 57% of 2013 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,5,7],"tags":[236,41,70,168],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-qi-macros","category-six-sigma","tag-bar-chart","tag-excel","tag-pareto-chart","tag-qi-macros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}