A funnel chart is a human-made visual display that shows quantities at successive stages of a process using a series of progressively narrowing segments, each representing the remaining volume at that stage. It operates through two parameters: (1) stages — the sequential phases or steps in the process being tracked; (2) flow — the quantity or count at each stage, monotonically non-increasing as items are filtered out. [formal: clivus | substrate: mind | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.35]
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funnel chart
A funnel chart is a human-made visual display that shows quantities at successive stages of a process using a series of progressively narrowing segments, each representing the remaining volume at that stage. It operates through two paramet…
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Why it is in scope
A human-made visual display that shows quantities at successive stages of a process, represented as a series of progressively narrowing segments — it extends process transparency by making drop-off visible at each step.
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- funnel charten · CANONICAL
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A funnel chart visualizes quantities at successive process stages. Remove the concept of process and the chart type ceases to operate — the removal test passes. A funnel chart without process stages is just colored blocks with no meaning.
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A funnel chart IS a specific kind of chart: it visualizes stages of a process (e.g. sales pipeline) as stacked, decreasing-width shapes. A competent speaker would call it a chart. Nearest kind is 'chart'. Law 9.
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A funnel plot IS a specific kind of funnel chart — it is the graphical representation using a funnel shape to show values across stages. A competent speaker would call it a funnel chart.
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