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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.

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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.

Bullseye Bubble Chart

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Measure of who is meeting their Kyoto climate change targets.

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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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