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Gallery: Bubble chart + Bubble map

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Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: bubble chart

  • 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.

How to create your own

Create your own: bubble chart

  • Bubble charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Create your own: bubble map

  • Bubble maps can be created in a range of desktop GIS applications such as MapInfo and ArcGIS.

Bubble map

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Location of high-tech companies and size of workforce.
Average rating: 8.7 (3 votes)
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map, bubble chart, bubble map

Bullseye Bubble Chart

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Measure of who is meeting their Kyoto climate change targets.
Average rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
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bubble chart, bubble map

Map (multi layer): Ageing population

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Map showing population trends and change in the old age population. To compare both impacts of population growth and aging population.
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map, bubble chart, choropleth map, combination chart, bubble map

Olympic medals result

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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.
Average rating: 5.3 (3 votes)
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bubble chart, bar chart, table, bubble map

Target growth across America

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Animation showing growth of target stores across America, from Flowing Data.
Average rating: 8 (1 votes)
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map, animation, bubble chart, bubble map