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Table / KPI cards
Sometimes the right “chart” is a clean table or a few big numbers.
Live exampleSample data
RegionRevenueYoY
North$184K+12%
Online$156K+24%
South$142K+4%
West$120K−2%
Use it when
- Exact values people will look up
- Mixed units in one view
- A few headline KPIs at the top of a dashboard
Avoid it when
- Trends and comparisons (the eye cannot scan numbers)
- Dozens of rows with no sorting or search
Common mistakes
- 1Walls of unformatted numbers
- 2No alignment — decimals all over the place
- 3Twelve KPIs with no priority
In business
Financial summaries, leaderboards, the KPI strip on any dashboard.