Bar Chart Race – How to beat the rest when presenting longitudinal data

Do you ever need to present large quantities of longitudinal data in a way that is digestible and engaging? Are you and your colleagues sick of static PowerPoint slides that represent one point in time but fail to effectively communicate insights over time? A bar chart race might be the answer.

At Purdie Pascoe, we recent won ‘Analyst Team of the Year’ at the BOBI awards, in conjunction with our friends at The Stats People, for our analysis of the COVID-19 data, both internationally and domestically. An element in our winning submission was a Bar Chart Race to show how COVID case rates and deaths rates had progressed over time. Please click on the image below to see the dashboard. Don’t forget to play with the filtering by continent, so you can see who is ‘winning’ the race within each region of the World.