Animal Charts – Fastest Fish Swimmers – a Horizontal Bar Chart

There are around 30 thousand fish species known to us. All of these fish species, large and small, live in our seas, oceans, rivers and lakes. Some of them are capable of swimming at an incredible speed.

In this excercise we will build a chart to see the top 10 fastest fish swimmers.

Download our Google Sheet with the Data

In this excercise we will build a bar chart but our bars will be displayed horizontally. Unlike other bar charts we built in other excercises, where our bars are displayed vertically, in horizontal bar charts our scale is placed either at the bottom or at the top of the graph.

For this chart however we have removed our scale and have included data labels. We also customized the color of our chart.

Here is a video that you can follow along to build this chart:

Published by Stela

I find data out-of-sights, one beautiful bar chart at a time! I also like to tell stories with data that inform and inspire!

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