Harvard Business Review is bombarding (spamming?) my Instagram feed with this ad almost every day (Google shows that the chart was first created somewhere in 2016):
It is a very busy chart, so not to be used in your next TED Talk, but for close-up reading these heat maps are actually pretty good. This is a pretty decent summary of what much have been a huge scoring spreadsheet.
Only a few colours (suspiciously similar to the SlideMagic look…)
Careful attention is paid to sorting and grouping rows and columns
Some more improvements are possible:
There is too much text in the descriptions of the boxes: we know that we are talking about sectors, no need to remind us, and there is too much lingo in there (“digitally engaging”).
Column headings can be shortened, especially that long word “digital” can be lost here and there
I would move the “assets, usage, and labor” headings (nice short ones) to the top to make the link with the column headings clearer.
This boxy chart will be a good challenge for my code of SlideMagic 2.0, I am going to try it.
Photo by Guillaume Bolduc on Unsplash