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waterfall-vertical
Standard waterfall — vertical bars cumulative bottom to top.
The most common waterfall orientation: bars rise/fall along a vertical axis, x-axis is the sequence of components (start, +revenue, −costs, +growth, end).
When to use
P&L bridges, variance walks, year-over-year decompositions.
When NOT to use
Long category labels (use waterfall-horizontal).
Rhetorical roles
- decompose
Variants & related
Required primitives
- has_data_labels
- has_axis_titles
Optional primitives
- has_source_note
Common anti-patterns
- illustrative-without-disclosure
Disambiguation rules
- Vertical orientation; bars stagger up and down following cumulative running total.
- Look for explicit "start" and "end" totals as anchor bars.