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MENTAL MODEL · M10885

Waterfall Chart

Waterfall Chart
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

A floating bar chart that displays cumulative changes, clearly showing the process of increase and decrease from a starting value to an ending value.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

Decomposition of the change process. Not just looking at "from where to where," but more importantly "what happened in between," especially suitable for financial analysis and variance explanation.

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A variant of the bar chart that displays the contribution of each increase or decrease item in a cumulative floating manner from the initial value to the final value, intuitively showing how the starting point gradually becomes the ending point.

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