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Gallery: Time line + Area chart

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How to create your own

Create your own: area chart

  • Area charts 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.

Stream graph

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This visualisation is a combination of an area graph and a time line. The areas here are used to represent the gross box office results of movies relased between 1986 and 2008. The visualisation is enhanced with links to reviews of the movies included.
Average rating: 5 (3 votes)

Time line area chart

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Time line area chart showing size of US government interventions.
Average rating: 5 (1 votes)
Visual types:

area chart, time line

Time line: Globlal media scare stories

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This time line relies on the use of area charts on several depth levels. Each chart presents the number of stories per topic against time giving a good sense of the evolution trough time of media coverage of some recent news.
Average rating: 5 (5 votes)