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Chart Types

Posts related to my documented research into the different charts types that I’ve discovered.

While I’m no longer updating the main page with new visualization methods, I’m still continuing to research into different chart types, which you can find in these posts below.


Chart Snapshot: Genealogy Fan Charts

A diagram that visualises a hierarchical tree structure using a semi-circle format.

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Chart Snapshot: Fan Charts

A visualisation tool used in time series analysis to display forecasts and associated uncertainties.

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Chart Snapshot: DocuBurst

A chart that attempts to answer ‘what is this document about?’ through visualising the text-based content.

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Chart Snapshot: Tanglegrams

A chart with two Dendrograms displayed side-by-side to show the concordance between two sets of hierarchical clustering.

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Chart Snapshot: Circular Dendrograms

A variation of a Dendrogram that visualises hierarchical clustering on a polar layout.

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Chart Snapshot: Dendrograms

A variation of a Tree Diagram that illustrates the arrangement of clusters formed by hierarchical clustering.

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Chart Snapshot: Cycle Plots

A Graph used to visualise and analyse seasonal patterns within time series data.

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Chart Snapshot: Jitter Plots

This graph provides a better view of overlapping data points by randomly jittering their position.

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Chart Snapshot: Counts Plots

A variation of the Strip Plot / Dot Distribution Plot that plots circles of varying area size.

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Chart Snapshot: Dot Distribution Plots

A plot that visualises the data distribution across multiple categories by plotting dots.

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Chart Snapshot: Area Unit Charts

An axes-less variation of a Dot Plot/Unit Chart that organises units into groups to display quantities between categories.

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Chart Snapshot: Dot Plots & Unit Charts

Visualisations that use dots or shapes to plot data points along a value scale.

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Chart Snapshot: Cleveland Dot Plots

A simple visualisation that plots dots to compare the values of a variable across multiple categories.

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Chart Snapshot: Correlation Matrices

A tabular form of data visualisation used for cross-examining multivariate data.

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Chart Snapshot: Contour Plots

A visualisation method used to represent a 3D plotted surface onto a 2D graph.

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Chart Snapshot: Chernoff Faces

A chart used to visualise multivariate data by assigning each variable to facial feature, which changes in proportion to the data values.

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Chart Snapshot: Hex Cartograms

A variation of the Mosaic Cartogram that uses hexagons instead of squares to make up regions.

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Chart Snapshot: Mosaic Cartograms

A data map where the regions are made up of square tiles, resembling a piece of mosaic art.

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