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Grouped bar

Sub-categories, shoulder to shoulder.

import { GroupedBar } from "diagrammatic";

The reliability review compares three severities inside each quarter. Grouping keeps SEV-1 against SEV-1; a stack would hide the only number the board quotes.

Incidents by severity02550SEV-1 budgetSEV-1SEV-2SEV-3Q1 24Q2 24Q3 24Q4 24Q1 25Q2 25

Illustrative data. Incident bot, production only. n = 390.

fig. 13 · Incidents by severity, six quarters

Q4 24 has the highest total at 91 incidents. SEV-1 reaches 11 against a budget of eight, then falls to four and three in the next two quarters. SEV-3 also peaks in Q4 24 at 52, then falls to 33 by Q2 25.

Use it for
Two or three series compared within each category.
Watch out
Four or more bars per cluster stops being comparable; split into small multiples.