American's Breakfast Preferences

Americans prefer their coffee and toast light, eggs scrambled and bacon very crispy, as shown in this 100% stacked bar chart. The survey of breakfast preferences was conducted by YouGov.

The 100% stacked bar chart can show a profile of several different products or companies in a single chart. In this case each breakfast food is shown in a separate bar and each bar is broken down into a different set of items (e.g., almost white, very light, light and black for coffee). Many of our customers use this kind of chart to show different characteristics of a given company or industry (e.g., sales by channel, customer size, region). This profile 100% stacked bar chart can replace multiple pie charts and is much easier to read.

American Breakfast Preferences in a 100% Stacked Bar Chart

How I Made this 100% Stacked Bar Chart

Here is the breakfast preferences data I used to create the 100% stacked bar:

Here's how I made the 100% stacked bar chart:

type in the breakfast preferences data from the YouGov article with the data along the diagonal and each bar with its own set of row labels
remove the y axis and x axis line
adjust the bar gaps to make the bars wider
set internal chart margins wider so that the chart fills its container
in Bars and Series Format dialog, multi-select series in Series Style tab to set all series colors to a light gray
color the largest segments in each bar to highlight them
add segment links to further highlight largest segments in each bar
annotate smallest labels in toast bar