Waterfall Chart
History of Waterfall Popular as the flying bricks chart due to its apparent suspension of columns (bricks) in mid-air, the waterfall chart is also known as a Mario Chart. Often in finance, it has also been referred to as a bridge. The waterfall chart is often used by strategy consultants to show the sources of […]
Scatterplot
History of Scatterplot According to statistician Edward Tufte, more than 70% of all charts in scientific publications are scatterplots. Although no physical evidence remains, the research of Friendly and Denis indicates that the original scatterplot was made in 1833 by the English scientist John Frederick W. Herschel. For his study on the orbits of double […]
Line Chart
History of Line Chart Some of the earliest known line charts are generally credited to Francis Hauksbee, Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius, Johann Heinrich Lambert and William Playfair. Economist William Playfair, the author of “The Commercial and Political Atlas” (1786), used 43 line chart variants to explore time-series data about political and economic matters. Another use of […]
Histogram
History of Histogram Karl Pearson introduced several now-commonplace statistical tools. One of these was the histogram, a diagram similar to a bar chart. The use of a histogram in statistics is to represent a set of continuous, rather than discrete, data. For this reason, Pearson explained that it could be employed as a tool in […]
Bubble Chart
A bubble chart represents data points replaced with bubbles, adding an additional dimension of the data represented through the size of the bubbles. As a variation of a scatter chart, a bubble chart similarly does not use a category axis — both horizontal and vertical axes are value axes. [chartdesc] History of Bubble Chart Bubble […]
Area Chart
There are different types of area chart, including stacked and 100% stacked charts, which layer multiple data series to illustrate their contributions to a whole. This makes area charts especially useful in scenarios where the relationship between components and totals is important, such as revenue versus expenses or segment-wise sales over time. Tools like Power […]