Bar Chart Formatting

[Buchanan Street]

Is there any way to increase the width of one bar but not the others?

I’m actually looking to make the bars increase in width with the X axis as
the Y access increases their height. The only thing I’ve found is to
increase all the bars uniformly.

 

[Jon Peltier]

If you widen the bars as they grow in height, you will be presenting people
with a quandary: Is the bar height the chart feature than encodes the data,
or is it the bar area. To minimize misinterpretation and confusion, you
should not use variable widths. If you want to highlight one or two bars,
show them in a different color.

- Jon