Waterfall Chart
History of Ben Shneiderman is considered to be the inventor of Treemaps. He created treemaps as a way to visualize a vast file directory on a computer, without taking up too much space on the screen. Treemap has subsequently become an essential method for displaying hierarchical data using nested figures and rectangles in information visualization […]
Scatterplot
A scatter plot, also known as a scatter chart or a scatter graph, is a two-dimensional data visualization that uses dots to represent the values obtained for two different variables – one plotted along the x-axis and the other plotted along the y-axis. Scatter plots are primarily used to indicate the relationship between two variables […]
Line Chart
A line chart also known as a line plot or a line graph, is a type of chart that displays information as a series of data points called ‘markers’ connected by straight line segments. Commonly used in different fields to represent correlation between variables it is similar to a scatterplot, except that the measurement points […]
Histogram
A histogram graph is a plot that lets one represent data points that lie in a range of values called classes or bins creating a frequency distribution of a continuous set of data. This allows for the inspection of the data for its underlying distribution (e.g. normal distribution), outliers, skewness, etc. Being one of the […]
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
An area chart or area graph is based on the line chart but is used to primarily communicate the summation of data rather than represent individual data values, as in line charts. The area between axis and line is usually emphasized with colors, textures or hatchings. The area underneath the line can help one to […]