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specialized family
lollipop
Bar chart with a circle on top — the "lollipop" silhouette.
Compromise between a bar (showing magnitude as length) and a dot-plot (compact). The dot draws the eye to the value; the stem provides the bar-like context.
When to use
You want a bar chart to feel less heavy / more editorial.
When NOT to use
Comparing many groups across many categories (gets visually noisy).
Rhetorical roles
- compare
- rank
Variants & related
Required primitives
- has_axis_titles
- has_data_labels
Optional primitives
- has_legend
Common anti-patterns
- decoration-only
Disambiguation rules
- Thin stem ending in a circle — exactly like a lollipop.
- If the stem is replaced by a thick bar, it is bar (vertical/horizontal).