Best way to distinguish extremes in a bubble without value label
I'm displaying some data related to categories using a series of overlapping bubbles.
- Bubble sizes correspond to category data value so one can compare categories between each other based on bubble size.
- Within bubbles a smaller bubble displays category related data according to bubble size. The more relevant the data, the larger the inner bubble.
- When inner bubble exceeds outer bubble size it shows as an outline to the original bubble but its size is capped to 110%.
- Categories are displayed next to the corresponding bubble and that's the only information I have on the bubble series.
The problem
Bubbles don't display any quantitative information so there's no way to distinguish between 0% (no inner bubble) and 100% (inner bubble of the same size than outer one).
I was thinking to always display inner bubble of 2% size which would partially solve the 0% problem, but wouldn't solve the 100% one.
I was wondering what would be a better way to display this data using bubbles without any problem extreme values?
Following image is just a partial example of bubble display.