What type of chart is this and how can I create a similar chart?

Question

My company asked me to make a sort of chart with the x-axis being product parameters and the y-axis being the names of different products, something like this:

I tried to create one in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 with the Insert -> Chart tool and got something like this:

But every bar starts from 0, whereas I need them to start from somewhere I designate, just like in the first image (you can see the bar for "Crosslink NX (w/o Tx)" roughly starts at a bit over 15).

My question is what type of chart is the first image called, and most importantly, how can I create a similar one? What tools should I use and how do I do it?

Thanks!

Edit: I would like to further improve my graph to something like this:
But this chart was created with a workaround. It started from a vertical bar chart in Excel, and I had to manually rotate all the text:

Then I copied the chart as an image, pasted it to where I needed it, and manually rotated the copy-pasted picture.
I'd like to have the cookie numbers axis at the bottom of the rotated chart, not the top where it currently is, and furthermore, is there a more straightforward method to create such a chart?
Thanks again!

Answer 1

Every bar needs 2 numbers: The start and the stop. No chart where one bar needs only one number will do. You can cheat by using the usual tiled bar chart in spreadsheets. This is the default output:

After removing the fill color and the edge from the bars of the leftmost value column you have:

The first column of values presents the starting values of the bars. The 2nd column of values shows the lengths of the bars. If you have the start and stop values you must calculate the difference to get the length.

Maybe cheat is a wrong word, the possibility can well be left there intentionally.

About the name: The chart you want presents validity or coverage ranges. Unfortunately I have never seen any special name for it. For me it's still only a horizontal bar chart.

There are numerous data presentation and charting programs which have much more formatting and decoration possibilities than simple spreadsheets. I skip that subject. Without such advanced software getting every detail of your example means in practice redrawing it in Illustrator or other graphics program, You can paste the skeleton for ex. from Excel, but 90% of the work is still left.

ADD:

The given comment suggests that the actually wanted chart could be this simple:

There's only manually placed dots in otherwise empty cells in Excel.

Answer 2

If you want to create a graph like this, and don't want to have to manually draw it in design software like Illustrator or Inkscape, I'd recommend a tool like Tableau. Tableau is an extensive data visualisation tool that allows you to create any imaginable kind of graph and have it redrawn when the data changes. It's not cheap, though.

Answer 3

Your reference image is a custom chart design, and I would actually call it an infographic that looks like a chart.

You will more likely achieve a style like that with professional design software, less likely with Powerpoint.