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Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Arc Diagram - Data For Visualization

Arc diagram is a means to represent network connections. In this diagram, the position of nodes is in a linear straight line, and the connections between the nodes are represented by the arcs. The thickness of these arcs is helpful to represent the frequency between the source node and the target node.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Area Graph - Data For Visualization

An area chart represents the quantitative analysis of a dataset. It is a plot just like a line chart, but the difference is that the area below the line had shade or color till the axis. We use differently shaded regions to compare the data.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Bar Chart - Data For Visualization

A bar chart is a chart that represents data with categories to their associated values. This type of chart can be vertical or horizontal depending upon the ease of visualization. In a bar chart, we keep categories on one axis while its corresponding values on the other.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Box & Whisker Plot - Data For Visualization

A box & whisker plot is a representation of median in a numeric variable group, where we can visualize upper and lower interquartile ranges. The line in the middle of the box shows the median, and the lines outside and parallel to the box are known as whiskers. If a point lies at more than 1.5 times the length of the box, then it is termed as an outlier.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Bubble Chart - Data For Visualization

A bubble chart uses three variables to represent data points in the form of bubbles. The first two variables help to plot the data on the X-axis and the Y-axis, respectively. The third variable indicates the size of the bubble. Each point in this chart is a category disparate to a scatterplot.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Bubble Map - Data For Visualization

A bubble map is a visual of a geological dataset on a map. These variables or points use bubbles to plot, on all the regions of the map as the data represent. The bigger a bubble is on the map, the more data is present in the dataset for that region and vice versa.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Bullet Graph - Data For Visualization

A Bullet graph is a single thermometer like visualization. They are used to compare the numeric value with a target value. The dark line in the middle of the graph indicates the value of the variable, while a vertical line is also there, which indicates the target.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Calendar Chart - Data For Visualization

A Calendar chart helps to display the data for months or years. This is a good way to compare data over time. They highlight holidays or any important dates. The most granular value of this chart is a day.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Candlestick Chart - Data For Visualization

A candlestick chart is a visualization of a financial day’s open, high, close, low. The real body is the widest part of the candlestick. When the real body indicates filled or colored black that, means the close, was lower than the open while if the body is not filled or colored green that, means the close is higher than open.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Cartogram - Data For Visualization

A Cartogram is a representation of a dataset on a map. The representation is in such a way that the area on the map, which has more value will inflate. Irrespective of the boundaries and the areas with low values will shrink. It is like a choropleth map, but in a choropleth map, the size of boundaries remains the same.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Chord Diagram - Data For Visualization

A chord diagram helps to represent relationships between different entities. These diagrams place radially, which shows relations by flows. The higher the width of flow, the importance of the relationship is higher between entities.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Choropleth - Data For Visualization

A choropleth is a visualization in the form of a map. The areas of this type of plot are shaded or patterned according to the value associated with them. It basically shows the geographical characteristics of an area mentioned in our dataset. These maps are very popular due to the ease of readability.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Circle Packing - Data For Visualization

Circle Packing is a visualization to show hierarchical data using nested circles. It is just like a treemap but uses circles instead of rectangles. Every circle represents a category, and their sub-categories are within it. The greater the size of the circle, the greater will be the value of that category and vice versa.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Connection Map - Data For Visualization

A Connection Map helps to plot connections between two data points on a map. These data points connect each other by a straight line or a circular line. Actually, this line is the shortest path between those points.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Correlogram - Data For Visualization

A Correlogram is a visualization between two or more variables, to show correlation. If on a plot, both the variables move towards their positive side, then it is called a positive correlation. And, if both the variables move towards negative, then it’s called a negative correlation. If there is no pattern detected between the variables, then it is called no correlation.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Dendrogram - Data For Visualization

A dendrogram is a hierarchical representation of the arrangement of clusters that we get from an analysis. It looks like a network of connections. The point where the visualization starts are known as the root node. From the root node, the hierarchy starts, the connecting line joining further nodes are branches, and the last nodes are called leaves.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Density Plot - Data For Visualization

A density plot takes a numeric variable to represent a smooth distribution curve over time. The peak of the density plot shows the maximum concentration of numeric data. This chart is similar to a histogram, where there is a smooth curve instead of bars. We can draw up to five variables on the same plot for comparison. If we plot more variables, then it will become hefty.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Donut Chart - Data For Visualization

A donut chart is a representation of different categories like a Pie chart, the difference is just that there is no center in the donut chart. It is a hollow visualization, having dimensions on the circumference. It helps the person to see directly at the proportion.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Dot Map - Data For Visualization

A dot map is a type of map that has dots marked on it according to the numeric-variable. The higher concentration of dots represents the higher is the amount of numeric-data in that area of the map. It shows data on a granular level characterized by color on the map.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Dot Matrix Chart - Data For Visualization

Dot Matrix Chart is the representation of dots of different categories. All the dots are in a matrix, and we can observe comparison as the dots of different categories have different colors associated with them. The more dots a category has, the more will be its value.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Error Bar - Data For Visualization

An error bar is a line going through a point. This line shows the variation of the data of that point. Actually, these bars show standard deviation. If the data for a point is in concentration to the mean, then the line will be small, showing low standard deviation and vice-versa.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Flow Chart - Data For Visualization

A Flow chart is a representation of defining many processes in the form of a diagram. The diagram includes various steps in a chronology according to which the task needs to perform. We write each step of the whole process in different polygons. Every polygon represents different characteristics.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Flow Map - Data For Visualization

A flow map is a combination of a flow chart and maps. They are used to see the object moving over a map. In this visualization, we see a map on which flows of different objects are going from one area to the other using arrows with different widths. The width of the arrow is proportional to the quantity of movement.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Gantt Chart - Data For Visualization

A Gantt chart is a representation of horizontal bars, which show the work schedule with the timeline. Gantt chart has a timeline on X-axis and work schedule on the Y-axis. In old times, people made a Gantt chart by using paper or boxes. Various visualization software that can make a dynamic Gantt chart has emerged with the advancement of technology.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Heatmap - Data For Visualization

A Heatmap or heat map is a visualization of color-coded cells in the form of a table. It has categorical data on both the X and Y-axis, respectively. The cells represent the numeric values or color as you desired. We can even use shades of the same color in visualization, the darker the color, the higher would be its value, and vice versa. There is also a color legend associated with the chart that gives a brief insight, which color represents a positive outcome and which one shows a negative.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Hierarchical Edge Bundling - Data For Visualization

Hierarchical edge bundling is a representation used to overcome the problem of clustering when we visualize high categories of data. In this, every hierarchical category is adjacent to each other in a circle, and then thread-like structures work as connections. Each node has a connection to its associated category, which makes it look less hefty.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Histogram - Data For Visualization

A histogram is the representation of range w.r.t. a numeric variable of the given data. It comprises of an X-Y plane. On X-axis there is range whereas on the Y-axis there is a bar that represents the units lying in that range.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Illustration Diagram - Data For Visualization

An Illustration diagram is the representation of an image or a diagram. Labels or information is marked on the image to describe the functioning of parts of the image. It is a basic phenomenon that visuals make everything easy to understand and memorize.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Kagi Chart - Data For Visualization

A Kagi chart is helpful to represent the ups and downs of prices. It looks like a line graph with just a 90-degree movement. The width of the line of this chart shows the transactions done at that instant. This type of chart doesn’t have a time axis.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Line Graph - Data For Visualization

A line graph is a graph that represents a trend of the dataset with a line. At least two numeric variables are mandatory to draw a line graph. On an X-Y plane, both numeric-variables mark a point, and the line that forms by the combination of all these marked points shows the trend of our dataset.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Marimekko Chart - Data For Visualization

A Marimekko Chart shows data of categories and their subcategories. It could give information about the market. Each bar in this chart can be of different segments. The greater the bar, the higher will be the value of the segment.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Mind Map - Brainstorm - Data For Visualization

A Mind map alternatively known as brainstorm is a representation of ideas plotted according to the logic, to solve a problem. In a mind map, the visualization for problem-solving starts from the center of the page. The flow is further distributed in categories and subcategories in a flow to solve the problem, towards the edge of the page in all directions. We use arrow lines to control this flow.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Multi-Set Bar Chart - Data For Visualization

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Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Network Diagram - Data For Visualization

A network diagram is a systematic representation of the arrangement of computer components like nodes, routers, hubs, firewalls, etc. This diagram works in such a way that all the devices could interact with each other hassle-free. All the devices in this diagram have their separate symbols, and links connect them to give meaning to the diagram.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Non-Ribbon Chord Diagram - Data For Visualization

A Non-ribbon chord diagram is a shrink version of the chord diagram in which we show only the nodes and the lines. The lines represent the relationship between the nodes. This provides more value to the connections between them. It doesn’t show the connection values as a chord diagram in a flow. Its main aim is to attain a focus on the connections.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Open-High-Low-Close Chart - Data For Visualization

Open-high-low-close Chart shows us the movement of price over time. There are vertical lines marked on the chart to show the price. If we draw this chart for the day, then the leftmost bar will indicate the opening price of the day. The closing price of the day will be the rightmost bar.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Parallel Coordinates Plot - Data For Visualization

A Parallel Coordinates Plot is used to analyze multivariate data. It consists of parallel lines placed at equal distances. Every parallel line has a different numeric axis for different categories. The lines are then plotted for every variable through the numeric values associated with them.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Parallel Sets Plot - Data For Visualization

A parallel sets plot is a representation of various dimensions with relationships. Each dimension has a horizontal line, which divides into the number of categories of that dimension. The width of the bar denotes the higher value of that category. Each category from the first dimension goes to the categories of the second dimension, and so on.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Pictogram Chart - Data For Visualization

Pictogram Chart visualization is very popular and useful. It uses small icons to display the data where each icon represents a certain category. Through these icons, the data becomes easy to interpret. We arrange these icons in a linear way or even by using a grid. This chart is also known as Pictograph Chart, Pictorial Chart, Pictorial Unit Chart, Picture Graph.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Pie Chart - Data For Visualization

A Pie chart is a representation of categories all put in a circle in the form of a pie or a pizza. The difference is just that all slices are not proportional as we get in a pizza. Here the size of a slice varies according to the numeric variable present in the dataset associated with that category.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Point & Figure Chart - Data For Visualization

A Point & Figure Chart is a representation of the prices of stocks. It consists of two indicators X, and O, to indicate the price movement. X indicates the value of the stock reaches more than a selected high price, while O indicates that value reaches a selected low price.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Population Pyramid - Data For Visualization

A Population pyramid consists of horizontal bars emerging from a centerline in both directions of the X-axis. The bars emerging to the left indicate the population of males, while bars emerging from the right indicate females. The bars are arranged in such a way, that the top bar shows the newborn population and the age bracket increases as we go down, this visualization looks like a pyramid.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Proportional Area Chart - Data For Visualization

Proportional Area Charts are helpful to visualize data in the form of shapes where mostly square or a circle is used. The area of the shapes shows the values associated with them. We mention the area as a label on these charts to show the exact area, which helps to distinguish between similar figures.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Radar Chart - Data For Visualization

A Radar chart is like a spiderweb chart on which all the categories of an object are represented on different axes. The numeric-units distribute on different axes that help to plot the chart. After plotting data points of every axis, they join making a polygon.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Radial Bar Chart - Data For Visualization

When the data that we want to visualize is in the form of a Polar Coordinate System rather than the Cartesian System, we call it Radial Bar Chart. They are in the form of circular bars one upon the other. The length of the bar represents the value of that category.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Radial Column Chart - Data For Visualization

A Radial Column Chart is helpful to show data in a bar chart where the axis is circular. There are concentric circles that show the intervals of the numeric axis. The central axis is the starting point and extends outwards. The higher the bar is, the more numeric value it represents.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Ridgeline - Data For Visualization

A Ridgeline is a representation of the numeric values of a category in a hump-like structure. The humps arise along a horizontal line. This plot shows a bar-like structure instead of a hump when used as a histogram.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Sankey Diagram - Data For Visualization

A Sankey diagram is a visual representation in the form of flow. This flow gets distributed according to the dataset and flows towards other nodes. Links are the points where flow meets nodes. These diagrams highlight the width of flows with their distribution visually.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Scatter Plot - Data For Visualization

A scatter plot is a representation on an X-Y plane in the form of points. These points indicate the density and outliners for two variables. One variable marks a point on the horizontal axis, the other variable mark point on the vertical axis. A third additional variable can also be included here, for indicating the size of the point for better visualization.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Span Chart - Data For Visualization

A Span Chart is a visualization that shows the min. and max. Values of a category. It marks two numeric values for every category to the plot. It looks like a box, the upper edge of the box indicates maximum, whereas the lower edge of the box indicates a minimum.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Spiral Plot - Data For Visualization

Spiral Plot is a representation of the dataset along a spiral line. On this line, the data can be presented as a bar, line, or point. These data can be colored to show different time intervals. The visualization starts from the center, and the movement goes outward.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Stacked Area Chart - Data For Visualization

A Stacked Area Chart helps to compare different variables by their quantities over a time interval. Every variable is stacked one upon the other with different colors or shading. The plotting of the shaded region is just, as the simple area graph, the difference is just that it has more variables, stacked over each other.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Stacked Bar Chart - Data For Visualization

A Stacked bar chart is just like a bar chart with a slight difference that each bar is further subdivided into 2nd categorical variable. These categories get divided into the bar as a part of the total. The different categories of different colors, stack upon each other in this type of graph.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Stem And Leaf Plot - Data For Visualization

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Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Stream Chart - Data For Visualization

The Stream Chart (Stream Graph) is the representation of data in which the data is not represented along a fixed, straight axis. Here, the values have a representation along a varying central baseline. That’s why there is no corner in the chart, and the edges are round, which gives it a nice impression of flow.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Sunburst Diagram - Data For Visualization

A Sunburst Diagram is a representation of hierarchical categories. It looks like a pie chart, the difference is just that in this the hierarchical sub-categories are stacked upon each other. Every level of the hierarchy represents a ring.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Tally Chart - Data For Visualization

A tally chart is a way of representing data using marks. These marks are the occurrences, frequency, or total number of a category. These marks are like lines for every count, but every 5th count is a line that crosses the preceding four lines diagonally.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Time Table - Data For Visualization

A Time Table is a tabular representation of tasks, events, or a process in chronological order. They mainly focus on a factor that is time. They are very easy to make and read.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Timeline - Data For Visualization

A Timeline is a representation of every process w.r.t. time in chronological order. For using a timeline the data should contain dates. The dates define the time to spend on certain processes. We usually provide dates and processes on the X and Y-axis respectively.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Tree Diagram - Data For Visualization

We use the tree diagram to visually represent the hierarchy of tasks and subtasks. In this, we represent a tree with a trunk and branches. We have three types of nodes here. First, called the super-parent, which doesn’t have any superior/parent. Second, parent nodes that connect others with connections. These connections represent the relationship between the nodes. Third, child nodes (or end-nodes), which don’t have any children.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Treemap - Data For Visualization

The method for displaying hierarchical data using nested rectangles is called tree mapping. The different branch of the tree is given a category as a separate area rectangle whose sub-branches are represented further by small rectangles within it. The greater the size of the rectangle, the greater will be the value of that category and vice versa.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Venn Diagram - Data For Visualization

Venn diagram is a representation in the form of circles. Every circle in a Venn diagram represent different outcomes. The placing of circles is in such a way that the area where circles overlap is common in both, whereas the area that doesn’t coincide is not similar.

Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Violin Plot - Data For Visualization

A violin plot is similar to the box plot, except for one additional feature. In the box plot, you can visualize the mean whereas, in the violin plot, you can even visualize the distribution of data. The white point present at the center of the plot indicates the mean point. The thick grey line at the center represents the interquartile range, and the thin grey line represents the distribution except for outliners.

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Data VisualizationApril 3, 2025

Word Cloud - Data For Visualization

A word cloud is a combination of stressful words in the text. The words are arranged horizontally as well as vertically in a word cloud. The frequency of occurrence of a certain word depicts the size and boldness of that word in a word cloud.