During a quarterly business review, a junior analyst presents a column chart of Revenue by quarter. The y-axis tick marks read 0, 200, 400, and 600, but the axis title is simply "Revenue." Some executives interpret the highest bar as $600 instead of $600 000. To eliminate this confusion while keeping the display uncluttered, which label revision best follows data-visualization best practices?
Apply a diverging color palette so higher-revenue bars appear in darker shades.
Place the company logo next to the axis title to remind viewers the figures are monetary.
Keep the current axis title but turn on data labels that display the full values (e.g., 600000) above each bar.
Retitle the y-axis as "Revenue (USD, thousands)" and add a K suffix to each tick label (0K, 200K, 400K, 600K).
Best-practice guidelines recommend making units explicit on the axis so viewers do not have to guess or perform mental arithmetic. Renaming the axis to "Revenue (USD, thousands)" and formatting tick labels with a K suffix clearly signals that the numbers are expressed in thousands of U.S. dollars, resolving the ambiguity without adding extra text to the plot area. Adding full numeric data labels would technically clarify the values but would crowd the chart. Changing colors or inserting a logo alters design aesthetics or branding, not the underlying label problem, so those actions would not address the executives' confusion.
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