Lollipop Chart Maker: Examples & Data Guide

When to choose this chart

Lollipop charts give a lighter visual treatment to category comparisons. A stem anchors each point to a baseline while the point marks the measured value.

Prepare and map your fields

Choose category labels and comparable numeric values. Sort deliberately for a ranking, and keep a shared zero baseline when interpreting relative magnitude.

Map the category and value fields and select any explicit aggregation.

Choose an ordering that matches the story rather than relying on imported row order by accident.

Check whether stems, points and labels remain distinguishable at the export size.

Read the result correctly

Compare point positions on the same axis. The size of a decorative point does not encode the vote count.

A mistake to avoid

A lollipop chart is still a category comparison, not a scatter plot. Crowded series or very small point gaps may be easier to read as ordinary horizontal bars.

Export and keep your data private

Review the title, units, labels and any omitted-row warnings at the final export size. PNG is a raster image, SVG retains vector chart elements, and PDF embeds a raster image. Save the original table if you may need to revise the mapping.

Data stays in browser memory; no upload, external chart service or AI model. CSV, TSV, semicolon/pipe text, JSON and JSON Lines: 2 MB, 10,000 rows, 24 columns. Charts allow up to eight series; categorical charts 60 groups, lines/scatter/candlesticks 500 rows, pie/donut/waffle 12 categories, radar 3–12 dimensions. Blank/invalid mapped values are omitted and counted. Numeric values use a decimal point; remove currency symbols and grouping separators. Percent strings are treated as displayed numeric values (25% becomes 25). Dates use ISO format. Recommendations check data structure, not meaning or causation. PNG up to 16 MP; SVG stays vector; PDF embeds a high-resolution chart image. Review mappings, ordering, aggregation and labels before sharing.