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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.

Presentation of range of visual outputs looking at the housing market. Analysis is annotated in order to help users understand the significance of what is being displayed.

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

Measures how much knowledge on Millennium Development Goals between 2007 - 2008. Arrow highlights more detail (such as info on ethnicity) on the minority 'know more than 'very little''.

Deaths from smoking across the six towns, 2002-6 average annual rate per 100,000.

US political party affiliations for religious traditions (in contrast to <a href="http://datavis/edit.php?id=123">this bubble chart</a>).

Percentage of 11 year olds achieving Level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 tests for English and mathematics in England.

Proportion of the population with tertiary education in selected European counties, 2001.

Bar chart showing mortality from alcohol for males compared with females, with error limits.

Serious pollution incidents affecting water, air or land, 1993 to 2007.

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.

Academic citations between journals (inner circle) and fields (outer journal)

Clustered bar chart showing inequalities in life expectancy for men and women who live in areas with different levels of deprivation (for Brighton and Hove).

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

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.

Rank comparison diagram, comparing credit ratings of nations by different credit ratings agencies.

Textual cross references found in the Bible.

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

Double Document Shared Word Diagrams compare and contrast two documents by showing both the unique and shared vocabulary and its distribution across the two documents of interest. The two columns of squares represent the two documents. The leftmost column of word circles shows the highest frequency non-trivial words found in document 1 but not document 2. The rightmost column of word circles shows those words unique to 2 and the central column shows the words that are common to both.<br />You can also input your text and generate your own visualisation.

Effect plots work by identifying high-order terms in a generalised linear model, a statistical technique. Once these terms are identified fitted values are derived and plotted for the relevant groups.

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.

1904 map showing housing conditions in Manchester and Salford.

Interactive chart enabling users to explore interactions between ethnicity, gender, type of abuse and likelihood of being a victim of child abuse. Values can be displayed using bars, bubbles, colours and position on the chart.

Local Council election results 1974 to 2008.

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

This visualisation offers some specialised information about a couple of economic indicators: cumulative percentage of change of some currencies against the dollar and the annualized percentage of change in exports. The information is displayed for six developing economies as a way to show the relationship between monetary policy (adopting floating currencies) and the change in the exports. It gives detailed information for each country in order to convey its message to a relatively specialized audience.

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.

Parallel Sets is a technique for visualizing categorical data. It helps you get away from representing individual data points, and instead show sets and subsets of items with certain combinations of criteria.<br />This example illustrates the people on board the Titanic. In a way, ParSets is a mix between parallel coordinates and treemaps/mosaic plots.

Visualisation used to show the relative position of research objects. In the example there are four brands rated for several dimensions in a survey.

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

Comparison of ranking of sectors in FTSE 100 between March 2007 and March 2009.

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 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.

Visualisation useful in the display of contingency tables. The rectangles are proportional to the expected counts for each combination.

Vehicle offences in Wiltshire at LSOA level.

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.

Comparison of what is important for people of different ethnic groups in making an area a good place to live.

Map of deprivation with zoom-ins for key areas.