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Area graph: Pets' carbon print
Area chart with a comparison of the carbon print of several pets against the carbon print of some popular cars.
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Bubble chart of UK public spending by government department
Total UK government public spending, by department.
The area of the circles represents the total spend, and the colours are used to distinguish the different departments
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This visualisation presents the number of foreign high school students in the US in 2008 and contrast it with the number of US students going abroad. The total volume of students is represented by the area covered by the lines.
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This visualisation is a combination of an area graph and a time line. The areas here are used to represent the gross box office results of movies relased between 1986 and 2008. The visualisation is enhanced with links to reviews of the movies included.
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Time line of the political landscape in Germany
This visualisation combines the characteristics of a time line with those of a bar graph to display the proportional political composition of parties in the government and opposition from 1950 to 2009. There is plenty of information for each data point in the annotations that accompany the graph.
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