Gallery: Non-Commercial Research + Proportional area chart
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.
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treemap, parallel coordinates, comparative chart, proportional area chart
Academic citations between journals (boxes) and fields (colours). 'Compass points' indicate citations for a specific journal - incoming (white arrow) and outgoing (black arrow).
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Music artists listened to over time, using data taken from last.fm
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A brief history immigration in the United States, winner of a Flowing Data competition.
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