Three ways to convert a simple PowerPoint bar chart into awesome infographics

Bar charts have been there for ages now and they do a decent job at visual data comparison.  But have you thought of giving an infographic twist to native ppt bar chart? If not, it’s worth it and it works!!! 

We have tried the following 3 ideas for infographic makeover of the native PowerPoint and our clients love it! We are getting huge traction towards creating such make overs if more and more ways. Let me share the 3 ideas which have given us a huge edge:

 

Infographic Makeover of PowerPoint Bar Chart

 

Infographic makeover idea # 1: Bars as 3D Projections

The length of the horizontal bars is in exact proportion to the lengths of the bars in the native ppt chart. The projected 3D part has the name of category or series name as we see it in the chart editor. This chart can be stretched in any way and can be squeezed easily to fit in smaller area thereby saving a lot of slide real estate and yet giving a Wow! Factor to your slide.

Infographic makeover idea # 2: Bars as Circular Rims

Here the lengths of the circular rims is in proportion to the values attached to them or in other words roughly the same spread as in the native ppt chart. Here we have to lock the aspect ratio for best results. This is one of our absolute favourites!!!

Infographic makeover idea # 2: Bars as Connected Circles

This sounds simple but works great. Here the size of circle is in proportion to the value of categories. We can also overlap the circles and still they look great! This approach to infographics has worked very well for us!

Let us know what you think.