Recently, a client asked me to build them a visual to show their top 20 most profitable accounts. I created a simple bar chart showing profit and filtered that down to the top 20. However, as I looked at the chart, I wondered to myself...why are they the most profitable? The numbers were all pretty similar (say for example, #1 was $100,000 and #20 was $80,000), but how did they get to be the most profitable. So as a good analyst does, I started exploring that. I ended up adding in additiona...