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Gallery: Line chart + Scatterplot + Time line

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Showing visual types:Line chart Icon for removing this tag Icon for this tag's benefits and pitfallsScatterplot Icon for removing this tag Icon for how to create this kind of visualisationTime 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: scatterplot

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

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.

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.
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