Benson Company is a retailer that specializes in the e-commerce sale of small office supplies including decorative file folders, personalized desk calendars, and trendy desk accessories. As part of their annual review, management decided to perform some analysis on trends over the past five years. One manager suggested they use data visualization for this purpose. If management would like to analyze how well the company achieved their sales targets over the past five years, then what type of chart would be the best to use to do this?
A) A bar chart that shows total values between the years.
B) A pie chart that shows how much of the total sales target materialized each year.
C) A Tableau or other business intelligence tool chart that shows the data in a trendy and unique way.
D) A time series graph that shows how the performance each year compared to the target values.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This question requires familiarity with descriptive analytics and charts generated from the available data. Choice D is correct as a time series graph looks at a performance, sales in this case, over time, and compares it to target values. The remaining choices are incorrect as they would be better suited to display other kinds of information or they are a non-existent choice.

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