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Interactive United States population density map.

An extension of the concept of histogram to display the colour image content.

Extension of a scatterplot to third dimension to represent measurements on sepals and petals of Iris flowers.

Roads in a local area within 500m of a postcode containing one or more shops where food is reasonably priced and which sell more than 8 kinds of fresh fruit and vegetables.

A graph designed to visualise the level of agreement between two raters. The black squares represent the observed agreement.

Earnings between gender for range of jobs, with equality and 10/20/30% difference lines marked.

A modification of the basic histogram in order to display information for two variables. In this case, the example shows the distribution of some reaction times by gender.

A generalisation of the boxplot, this visualisation relies on the median (red star) and the representation of 50% of the observations (dark blue area).

A block histogram lets you see the distribution of numeric values in a data set. The x-axis is divided into 'bins' that correspond to value ranges. Each item in the data set is drawn as a rectangular block, and the blocks are piled into the bins to show how many values in each range. To see the exact value of a block move your mouse over it. If you are charting more than one dimension use the menu at the bottom of the graph to choose which to show. You can also highlight a block by clicking - use control-click to highlight more than one, and click again to deselect). Highlights are helpful for pointing to particular items when you make a comment or following a particular item as you change the x-axis using the menu at bottom.

Location of high-tech companies and size of workforce.

The graphic shows China's international investments from 2003 to 2009 in several dimensions: as the percentage of the total exports; as the overall volume in millions of dollars; and as China’s foreign direct investment. The interactive features help make clear the growing presence of Chinese trade and investment all around the world.

Metropolitan 'megaregions' of America.

Measure of who is meeting their Kyoto climate change targets.

The two maps both show levels of recorded crime across Leicestershire at Lower Super Output Area LSOA level (with darker red representing higher levels of crime). The map on the left shows the actual geography of the LSOA areas across the County. LSOA areas each contain roughly 1,500 residents - larger areas on this map therefore represent rural areas with lower-density population. The cartogram, or distorted, map on the right shows the same data at LSOA level, but represents each of the LSOAs as a fixed size hexagon. This avoids the problem of over-emphasising the more rural LSOAs, seen on the left. However, it becomes more difficult for users to understand which areas are which - so a numbered key is used to identify particular areas.

Proportion of people claiming benefits in English cities, 2003.

Relationship between non-white population and level of deprivation (with different symbols for city types).

Oldham Neighbourhood Wellbeing Index. A modified traffic light scheme is used in the maps with red - indicating rates ranked in the highest 10% band, amber - the high 11-25% band, light green - the low 11-25% and dark green - indicating rates ranked in the lowest 10%. In maps displaying rates across the four themes, neighbourhoods with rates ranked in the 26-74% band are white, whereas in maps of trends and sudden changes, those neighbourhoods are shaded yellow, whilst those in white show no trend or sudden change. White is also used for neighbourhoods where no persistently high or low rates are detected. It is in this way that the maps themselves act as visual exception reports.

The outer circle illustrates presidential periods, the governing party, and whether or not the President died in office. The first inner circle shows the "eras" in history that those time periods covered. The third inner circle shows key foreign conflicts and wars. The fourth inner circle (purple) shows key legislative acts (or series of bills) that were issued. Finally, the bubbles in the middle indicate the average national debt, as indicated every 8 years.

Breakdown by area of under-18 profiles on national DNA database.

This is a lattice graph, that allows the presentation histograms for more than one variable.

A visualisation to display a variable distribution conditional on the distribution of at least a second variable. In the example, the number of breaks is displayed conditional on the type of wool and the level of tension.

This visualisation enables the visual representation of a correlation matrix. This particular example is about lawyers' ratings of state judges in the US Superior Court for 1977 on variables such as judicial integrity, demeanour, diligence and others.

A conditioning plot with splines added. It allows the visualisation of a variable distribution conditional on the values of the relevant groups of interest.

An implementation in R of the Elections map produced by The New York Times in 2004.

Flow map showing US and China imports and exports.

Geowise InstantAtlas showing funnel plot alongside area map, bar chart and legends.

This chart is designed to aid the interpretation of the results of a cluster analysis, a statistical technique used to discover the underlying structure of a set of observations. The data set contains dummy variables.

Plot of the probability density function with emphasis on the highest densities.

Competitiveness Index in rural areas, 2006. The distribution curve in each graph hints at the overall performance and the spread of scores. The skew to the left or higher ranks on both the Overall Index of Competitiveness and the Input measures and the shorter tail confirming greater signs of health in rural local authorities on these measures, than the skew to the right or lower ranks and longer tail on the Output and Outcome measures.

1904 map showing housing conditions in Manchester and Salford.

US Consumer Price Index through November 2008.

The graphic shows IED attacks on civilians, coalition and Afghan troops during the Afghanistan conflict. The interactive features enable analysis of change in casualties over time while the bubble map captures size location and category of casualty.

This visualisation presents the predicted relative and absolute level of growth for the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) compared to other emerging and developed economies. The interactive feature of the visualisation allows to easily visalise changes over time as changes in bubble sizes. For example, it is easy to see the waning contribution of European Economies to the World GDP.

Local Council election results 1974 to 2008.

An interactive dashboard, showing UK fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq. Users can change the timeframe to explore changes over time.

Interactive Map enabling users to identify services and rank areas by decile (thematic mapping). Map contains significant description of variables used.

Map of London to OAC, from Maptube.

Dan Vicker's Output Area Classification (OAC) layered on top of Google map using Maptube.

The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) now provides crime mapping for all of the 43 police forces in England and Wales. Residents can search for a village, town, or postcode to access the latest information on a range of crime types and compare with other neighborhoods. Data is mapped using Bing Maps, with time series trends shown for the different crime types.

Map showing population trends and change in the old age population. To compare both impacts of population growth and aging population.

Map showing the ratio of overseas migrants to internal migrants across Local Authority Districts in England.

The three maps show Local Authorities with (1) high levels of BNP membership, (2) large non-white populations, and (3) both high levels of BNP membership and large non-white populations. The use of the blue, red and overlap purple colours make this a geographic "Venn diagram", allowing viewers to quickly identify areas with high levels on two separate datasets.

Mood map showing sentiment about job security in East of England (as gathered from online BBC survey).

IMD 2004 ranks for London.

This map presents information about the murder rate in the United States during 1976. It shows the rates in six intervals, relying on several smaller maps to do that.

A bar plot that allows the combination of multiple histograms and visualisation of several variables.

This infographic presents the final medal count for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in several dimensions. The central part shows the distribution of medals by continent using proportional bubbles to reflect the count. The inner circles of these bubbles are pie charts split by the type of medal. The same technique is applied in the other dimensions presented: medals by geopolitical groups (China, EU, ex soviet republics) , by sport (swimming, athletics, gymnastics) , by GDP and by population. It also contains full information of the final medal count by country and a day-by-day gold medal count (annotated bar char in the lower half). All parts of the visualisation are commented to give an overall picture of the event.

Perspective plots are used to represent surfaces in statistics and geographical representations.

Pictorial bubble map showing numbers of web-service users by country. The number of headsets shows the number of users, and the colour of the headsets distinguishes between active and inactive users.

Quadrant plot comparing importance and need for improvement on crime targets.

A complex graph for presenting detailed population about population growth. It integrates other visualisation types: Histograms, representation of the quantile regressions, and boxplots for the residual values.

Ranking Histogram for conception rate of under 18 year olds (per 1,000 15-17 year olds) in 2002-04 for all LAs in England.

A world-view cartogram for World's Aids Day. The size of a region indicates the number of people infected with HIV - each square being 10,000 people infected. The colour of a region indicates the rate of infection, in relation to the global average.

This is a circular histogram plot which displays directional data and the frequency of each class. It is widely used in geography, geology and other earth sciences.

This is a lattice plot that displays scatter plots for three variables grouped in three clusters, in the example. Useful for a quick visualisation of the contingencies of the data set.

This visualisation integrates the capabilities of histograms, scatterplots and dispersion indicators in a single graph with interactive features.

This graph combines histograms and scatterplots.

Scatterplot with axis indicating the marginal distribution of a variable.

Scatterplot showing relationship between importance and quality of services in Southend. Scatterplot includes label for each of the services as well as a line to denote which services need improving. Services are colour co-ordinated.

A scatterplot designed to represent the probability density function of a random variable.

Retail activity in London.

SMS activity in Amsterdam over New Year's Eve.

This type of graph is a modification of the histogram In the example, the distribution of the treatment outcome for an arthritis blind trial conducted in 1988 is plotted against age.

Vehicle offences in Wiltshire at LSOA level.

Animation showing growth of target stores across America, from Flowing Data.

A type of scatterplot, this visualisation allows the representation of three variables. In the example, the plot presents the proportions of employment in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors for 12 European countries in 1978, 1986 and 1997.

The Vulnerable Localities index mapped across Stafford district. Red indicates a high score, green indicates a low score. Districts are ordered by those with the highest number of output areas with a VLI score above 200.

Density of ethnic minority groups in Leeds.

Map of UK by parliamentary constituency showing percentage of population claiming JSA. Slider at bottom allows users to choose a time point.

Scatterplot is used to compare of driving habits and petrol prices. Each point in the plot is joined to the previous years point, with the drawn path indicating order in time.

Votes by state for all US presidential elections.

This graph presents the ratios of the three variables as positions in a triangle.

This visualisation is a variation of the concept of histograms, combining observed and predicted distributions in a simple way.

Map of deprivation with zoom-ins for key areas.