Check out this post for my remake of a data visualization challenge I posted to my readers.

There should be logic in the order of your data. While I would say this recommendation is universally true, I'll focus in this post on a very specific example to illustrate the concept: leveraging order for categorical data in a horizontal bar chart. 

I often refer to my method of creating graphs as "brute force Excel," meaning that you can make almost anything work in Excel, but it sometimes means getting a little creative. The method described in this post can be considered a prime example of brute force Excel, where I walk through the steps for turning tabular data into a value plotted visually within a range.

See my makeovers for Naomi Robbins' Forbes blog 2012 makeover challenge. This post features two remakes, the first a pair of donuts and the second a big table of data. 

This post features a couple remakes of a graph shown in the Wall Street Journal summarizing a recent Forrester report that concluded Microsoft is late to the market expansion into mobile and has lost its dominant position.

I have a penchant for horizontal bar graphs. Check out this post for discussion on why and a remake illustrating the use case for horizontal bar graphs.

In this post, I outline the shortcomings of these colorful donuts and look at another way to visualize this data.