How to use a Pareto chart

From our free online course, “Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results”:

A Pareto diagram is a type of bar chart in which the various factors that contribute to an overall effect are arranged in order according to the magnitude of their effect. This ordering helps identify the "vital few" — the factors that warrant the most attention. Using a Pareto diagram helps a team concentrate its efforts on the factors that have the greatest impact. It also helps a team communicate the rationale for focusing on certain areas.Use this tool when you’re trying to identify which factors or items within a system warrant the most attention. You can then focus on those factors or items when you begin your improvement work.


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[ginohobayan]

Thank you!!
Learned a lot from a short video.

[poppotube]

Nice job. No reality TV crap to get in the way of seeing how the pareto works. Thanks

[nirmaldeshprabhu]

Wow!! That was a short, simple and excellent explanation.. Thank You!!

[majicMix]

Wow this was fantastic. I used this to understand this chart for my CompTIA Project+ exam. Thanks!

[riazhussainshaikh]

Thank you so much. i learned from this video pareto 📈.

[nicolewolf]

This was a clear way for me to understand what a Pareto chart is- thank you so much for the visual!

[japman]

Isn't that obvious that most frequent (bars with highest frequency) defects must be treated first for maximum efficiency?
I mean what value did Pareto chart add to this?

[vishakupusamy]

Simple and short . I really understand this Pareto Chart. Thank you.

[justintimberlake]

Thank you for the explaination!
A question, why is the third axis needed if the y-axis has to be sorted from the highest frequency to the lowest?
Isn't then obvious that the first columnt on the left is the column for the defect which we have to start resolving first to achieve the highest possible impact?

[AungMyoMyint]

Still don't understand how to read Line in this chart? I understand Bar.

[Storygospel]

Honest question, and semantical I'm sure, but he said that a Pareto Chart has two Axes; and then said "it has a X-axis, a Y-axis, and another X-axis".

Wouldn't that be three Axes? Or because there are two X-axis, those count for 1, & added to the Y-axis, together count as two overall?

[wafaahadidy-re]

Why did we use only A? The line intersection ends at b too

[Darkmankind]

Easily explained and understood. Thank you!

[drmichplayscott]

what is the. line for and how we can compute them sorry but I am new to this

[IGF-engn]

Thank you so much for the explanation 👍

[brianmyers]

Why does the frequencies add to more than 100%?

[wenbintang]

Concise and informative. Well articulated!

[kksanthosh]

wow thats better than many 15 mins videos explaining the chart

[tasimota]

I can deduce the equation for the line based on a brief view of the spreadsheet's data table on the left hand side. However, it would have been nice if you had explained how to derive the line within the dialogue. Just my 2 cents...

[Chair.dreamer]

Nice graph... Someone might be jobless i guess to discover this