Interview data
This visualisation shows the volume of respondents with a particular view/experience and, within that, their characteristics. The vertical axes shows the value being measured (in this case annoyance by noisy neighbours). The Horizontal axis shows the numerical value of people responding to a particular level of the given value.
Source:
Defra - Neighbour Noise: page 18 (Government report)
http://www.defra.gov.uk/ENVIRONMENT/noise/research/mori/pdf/mori.pdf
http://www.defra.gov.uk/ENVIRONMENT/noise/research/mori/pdf/mori.pdf
Interactive features
None
Benefits & pitfalls to avoid
- Using area or volume to represent data can distort data values, and exaggerate differences between values. For example, if the radius of the circle is used to represent data values, the area of the circle will quadruple if the data values double. There is also an issue of 'perceptual scaling' - the tendency of people to underestimate areas.
Create your own
- Bubble charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.


