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Gallery: Line chart + Scatterplot + Combination chart

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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: scatterplot

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

Annotated scatterplot with equality line

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Earnings between gender for range of jobs, with equality and 10/20/30% difference lines marked.
Average rating: 6.7 (6 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)