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Spider (radar) chart

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Benefits & pitfalls: spider (radar) chart

Where spider (radar) charts are used to represent time series data, the time series needs to show cyclical data. For example data on crime offences by hour of day could be usefully represented on a spider chart, similarly disease levels by month of the year.

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Create your own: spider (radar) chart

Spider (radar) charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

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Spider pie graph of deaths by year 1854-1855.

Average rating: 7.3 (6 votes)

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Personicx-Geo Interactive Spider

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Geodemographic clusters and average age band. Also provides background information on the cluster.

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