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There is a kind of (pretty simple) visualization we use a lot in my office, but none of us knows what it's called:

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The idea is that the second bar drills down into the indicated data from the first bar. As pictured here, 69% of the first bar is highlighted. The second bar shows that 76% of that initial 69% is highlighted, and so on.

We usually call these "engagement funnels", but searching online for that term pulls up a very different visualization. I'm asking because I'd like to build a tool to auto-generate them (likely with a library like d3) but want to know if others are already doing that...

Is there a standard name for this type of display?

(Bonus: do you know of a library or plugin that generates them already?)

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    $\begingroup$ Welcome to our site! I have tried to give a more meaningful title (bearing in mind most people who see the title will do so in a link, so can't see the actual picture), but feel free to edit to change it if you don't like it. $\endgroup$
    – Silverfish
    Commented Aug 22, 2016 at 20:59
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    $\begingroup$ Never seen it before personally. Do you know any references at all, literature or internet? If not, then your name is as good as any other. Nested bar chart??? $\endgroup$
    – Nick Cox
    Commented Aug 22, 2016 at 21:08
  • $\begingroup$ @NickCox I know I've seen them in the wild before, but can't think of or find examples off hand. I'll try to look for something... $\endgroup$
    – Benj
    Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 12:38
  • $\begingroup$ I have certainly seen this before too, though irritatingly I can't recall where. $\endgroup$
    – Silverfish
    Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 13:04

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I've seen this called "exploded bar charts". Seems to be mostly an Excel thing, but here's a Python matplotlib example. Usually there are just two levels (the normal bar on the left and the exploded bar on the right), so there may be a better name for this cascading version.

Somewhat related and supporting Nick Cox's "nested bar chart" name is the "nested area graph".

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