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How to create your own

Create your own: comparative chart

  • Comparative charts are used to compare things such as performance, ranks, changes or characteristics. Basic comparative charts can be created in standard applications such as Excel using line graphs.

Create your own: parallel coordinates

  • Parallel coordinates (profile graphs) are comparative charts comparing several characteristics at a given point in time. Parallel coordinatescan be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel PeltierTech has a post on how to create these in Excel.

Parallel Sets (ParSets)

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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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