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Posts related specifically to the subject of data visualization.


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: 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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Chart Snapshot: Non-contiguous Cartograms

A type of Cartogram where the regions are resized based on a numerical variable, while borders’ shapes are preserved and not connected.

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