The effectiveness of a bubble chart highly hinges on how it is created. It's important to know handy tips and best practices to make the most of this data visualization tool.

In Google’s bubble chart template for Data Studio you can look up a query and see its click-through rate (CTR), average position, and number of clicks all at the same time.

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Video: Chart doctor: the bubble chart Professor Hans Rosling, who died this week aged 68, was well known ...