Can You Use a Stacked Bar Chart for Trend Over Time
In data visualization it is important to create effective charts. Not pretty charts, not charts with many colors, not fancy charts, not charts built in …
Types of Charts
What If Your Bar Chart Doesn’t Start At Zero
There is a big rule in data visualization that most designers would never break – bar charts value axis should always start at 0. And …
Create Better Pie Charts
Pie charts are exclusively used in presentations, dashboards and reports. Yet they have a very bad reputation among data visualization designers. I believe this bad …
Area Chart Examples
What is an area chart Area charts are very similar to line charts but the area between the axes and the line is emphasized with …
The Violin Plot
What is Violin plot Violin plots are used to visualize data with its probability density at different values. Violin plots are great if you want …
Line Chart Examples
What are line charts Line charts are one of the simplest graphs available and are common in many fields. They are most widely used to …
What is a Sankey Chart
Sankey graphs are flow charts which use the width of the arrows to show the value of the flow rate between two categories. While a …