Bar charts, ranked and readable.
The workhorse of the report canvas. Horizontal or vertical, one series or several, always benchmarked and always click-through.
Five sections, ranked at a glance.
These are one leadership assessment's section scores, drawn horizontally and ordered high to low. Strategic vision leads at 92; follow-through trails at 52. Each bar is colored by the rating band it lands in, and the dashed line marks the team average of 74 — so a respondent reads, in one pass, which sections beat the group and which fall behind.
Click any bar in a live report and it opens a drilldown container: the question-level scores that rolled up into that section.
Reach for bar when the story is rank.
Bar charts are the clearest way to answer "which is highest, which is lowest" — across sections, questions, segments, or cohorts. Ascent's HorizontalBarChart and VerticalBarChart components share the same data contract as every other chart in the report builder, so switching a tile from bar to line or radar is a one-click change, not a rebuild.
Section and theme scores
Rank every section or theme in a scoring model side by side, so the strongest and weakest areas are obvious without reading a table.
Question-level breakdowns
Horizontal bars handle long question labels gracefully — ideal for a drilldown container that opens from a section score.
Cohort and segment comparisons
Compare departments, cohorts, or classifier segments against each other, or against the whole population, in a single glance.
Two orientations, one engine.
Both directions render from the same echarts theme layer and the same benchmark model.
Vertical bars
Category axis on the x-axis, value on the y-axis. Best for a compact set of categories — overall, sections, or a handful of themes — where labels are short.
Horizontal bars
Category axis on the y-axis. Built for long labels — full question text, competency names, or cohort names — and for ranked lists that run past a handful of rows.
Rating-band coloring
Bars are colored from your scoring model's rating bands by default, so a red-amber-green read is instant — or override with an explicit color per data point.
Benchmarks and drilldown
Attach up to three benchmark series — average, percentile, or seeded — as companion bars or a marker line, and wire a click on any bar to open a nested container.
Bar tiles read straight from your scoring model.
Whichever of the five scoring models produced a value — automated, networked, assessor, AI-interpreted, or calculated — bar tiles pull it in without a manual mapping step. Add a benchmark and the comparison bar (or marker) refreshes automatically as new responses land, so a live dashboard stays live.
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