Brute-force waterfall charts If your graphing application doesn’t have waterfall chart functionality built in, fret not. The secret is to leverage the stacked bar chart and make the first series (the one that appears closest to the x-axis) invisible. It takes a bit of math to set up correctly, but it works great. A blog post on this topic, along with an example Excel version of the above chart and instructions on how to set one up for your own purposes can be downloaded at storytellingwithdata.com/waterfall-chart.
