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How to Find the Right Chart Type to Represent your Numeric Data

How to Find the Right Chart Type to Represent your Numeric Data
22 Feb 2016 Charts help you visualize numeric data in a graphical format but the problem is there are just too many types of charts to choose from. This diagram will help you pick the right chart for your data type. couch mode print story Charts help you visualize numeric data in a graphical format but the problem is there are just too many types of charts to choose from. If you are finding it hard to pick the right chart type for your type of data, refer to chart chooser diagram. The poster, designed by Andrew Abela, is also available as a PDF. Related: Create Graphs Online with Google Charts You may also want to check out Chart Chooser – an online tools that lets you shortlist charts visually. Comments are closed but if you want to respond, please send me an email or tweet. Related:  HOW TO?

Butterfly Chart – Excel Chart with Dual Converging Scales A Butterfly chart is a chart where two entities are compared side by side using scales meeting at the center. Due to its shape, the chart resembles a butterfly and hence the name. These charts are sometimes also known as Funnel or Tornado Charts though I find “butterfly” to be a better description as it allows for a greater variation in shape than a funnel or a tornado does ! So let’s jump straight into creating a beautiful looking butterfly chart. Getting the Data for the chart Although a simple looking butterfly chart is as easy to create as a bar chart, there is some value in adding labels, converging scales and the other embellishments. The first three columns essentially contain all the data related to the business. Making the basic Chart Let’s create a basic chart with five series. Adding the XY series for the dummy scales Once we’ve inserted the XY-Series the chart looks like this: Aligning the XY points to the X axis If you noticed, the points are not aligned to the X-Axis.

Knowledge Maps of Researchers and Methods in the Visualization F Visual Cards for Collaboration and Team Creativity Making the Complex Clear Visual Literacy for Managers - How Sketching enables Visual Problem Solving and Communication (get the hardcopy edition at sketchingatwork.com) By clicking on a map or diagram thumbnail below, you can access an interactive graphic overview on tools, books, researchers in different visualization fields, as well as on key success factors of visualization. There is also an interactive organizing table that shows (incl. examples) one hundred visualization-based methods. Clicking on a particular tool, book, person, document, principle or method within a map opens the respective website or homepage in a new browser window or reveals an example (most maps were created with lets-focus). Stairs to visual excellence "Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management"Lengler R., Eppler M. (2007). Version 1.5 of the periodic table as PDF Imperfect Storm (Click on image to enlarge)

How to: Comment faire un Google Motion Chart Google Motion Chart est un outil puissant et simple d'utilisation qui permet d'interroger facilement un grand nombre de points de données. Voici en quelques étapes simples comment réaliser le sien. Faire parler des tableaux de données, c’est pas facile. On peut les décrire à la main, mais c’est long et fastidieux. On peut en faire des visualisations, mais ça coûte cher en design. Il existe une solution idéale, le Google Motion Chart, inspiré de GapMinder. OWNI l’a testé pour expliquer les causes de la crise grecque. Tutoriel par l’exemple : Tentons d’expliquer pourquoi un pays émet du CO2. 1. Trouvez une base de données. Sélectionnez les séries de données qui vous paraissent pertinentes. 2. Pour pouvoir travailler proprement, il disposer de données homogènes. On va ici se limiter à analyser les 27 pays de l’UE de 1990 à 2007. Les onglets AI et CA donnent accès à des données plus détaillées. 3. Mettez à jour le tableau et exportez. Exportez dans Microsoft Excel. 4. Retournez sous Excel. 5.

A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites Interested in joining a community based site but not sure which one is right for you? There are many different options out there that will cater to your specific interests and demographic. You can start by asking yourself a few questions. Is your interest in technology more Linux-based, or more camera-phone-to-take-picture-of-self-based? Would you like to make connections for business relationships or communicate to your legions of followers that you will be 'AFK' for the next 45 seconds while using the restroom? Yes, there is a little something for everyone here in cyberspace, and these demographic breakdowns of each social site will help you to choose the right community for you.

The Daily Graph "The Daily Graph" re-creates charts from The Economist's Graphic Detail blog using standard run-of-the-mill Excel techniques without macros. We do try to milk Excel for all it's worth and apply techniques that may not have been intended in the way we use them. In the end, it's the result that counts. "The Daily Graph" is published whenever we spot an interesting chart on The Economists's blog that looks like it cannot be done in Excel. Typically once or twice a week if we can find the time.The Daily Graph blog comes with a dowloadable version of an Excel workbook so that you can follow what we did... or you can "borrow" our work and use it for something entirely different. "The Economist" is a trademark of The Economist Newspaper Limited.

Brian.Shaler.name | 3rd Party Digg Development Digg Oracle The Digg Oracle is a Google Gears tool that indexes your Digg history and allows you to sort, search, and filter stories you have voted on in the past. It uses a local SQLite database to store and parse the data, so after a one-time sync with Digg's servers, the tool does not have to connect to the internet to perform the searching. Venn Friends Type in your Digg user name, and you will see a Venn Diagram of your friends and fans. Wheel of Upcoming Stories The Wheel of Upcoming Stories is a Flash visualization of recently submitted Digg stories. Digg Heat Map The Digg Heat Map was based on the same data as my previous maps of the Digg community. Digg RADAR Expanding from the Map of the Digg Community, I set up a real-time feed from Digg, showing little thumbs-up icons whenever a user "Diggs" (votes on) a Digg story. DiggStatus DiggStatus is a small utility that calculates the average usage statistics of Digg users and compares them to the statistics of a selected user. DiggTaggr

The World Top Incomes Database How to Create a Panel Chart in Excel To show a concise, clear summary of data for several departments or cities, you can create a panel chart in Excel. It shows all the data in a single chart, with vertical lines separating the groups. My chart shows sales for bars and cookies, in four cities, over the first 7 months of the current year. I learned this technique from Jon Peltier's website, where he also sells a Panel Chart Utility, that creates dot plot and bar panel charts. Panel Chart Steps The instructions for making a panel chart look long and complicated, and I've avoided learning this technique, because it was a daunting process. Last week, I finally took the plunge, and it's not so bad, once you get the big picture in your head. Add a separator field to the source data Summarize the data in a pivot table Copy the pivot table data as values Create a line chart from the copied data Add another series to create vertical dividing lines Add final formatting to clean up the chart Add a separator field Summarize the data

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics Climat Cosmograph in Excel - World migration with bilateral flow chart - E90E50fx Igor: What is this?Freddy: Schwarzwalder KirschtorteMonster (OS): MmmFreddy: Oh, do you like it? I'm not partial to desserts myself, but this is excellentIgor: Who are you talking to?Freddy: To you. You just made a yummy sound, so I thought you liked the dessertIgor: I didn't make a yummy sound. Monster (OS): Mmm. by The FrankensTeam Initially I was inspired byPeoplemovinCarlo Zapponi's chart. It is a very nice job that I wanted to reproduce in Excel ...and I created a file but did not get a satisfactory result (if you want I can send the file) ... sometimes we have to know how to lose ... or maybe we just need to change strategy. I had to fix the formulas in values (where it was possible) to lighten the file ... and probably could do much lighter and without all of that data ... but it came out so and maybe will improve it later :-) Click here to download the Excel file. See also here:Life Expectancy by Nathan Yau's chart with ExcelEdward Tufte's Slopegraphs in Excel

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