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Gallery: Combination chart + Time line + Line chart

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Showing visual types:Combination chart Icon for removing this tag Icon for how to create this kind of visualisationLine chart Icon for removing this tag Icon for this tag's benefits and pitfallsTime line Icon for removing this tag Icon for how to create this kind of visualisation

Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: line chart

  • Line-charts imply that data is continuously changing. If your data is discrete you might consider a bar-chart instead.

How to create your own

Create your own: combination chart

  • Some combination charts, such as bar and line charts, can be created in standard applications such as Excel (using more than one axis). Others can be combined by saving visualisations as image files and combining in an image editor.

Create your own: time line

  • Time lines can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel More sophisticated visualisations can be created using commercial packages such as Tableau, or development languages such as Processing.

3D Infographic

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This is an online application that presents backdated meteorological data from Augsburg, Germany. The tool combines the advantages of several static visualisations, such as tables, line graphs and bar charts into a streamlined display. The application is fully interactive and allows the user to look at the information from any angle she wants, literally.
Average rating: 5 (5 votes)

Timeline scatterplot

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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.
Average rating: 7 (1 votes)