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How to Choose Chart Types (pic)
- uuilly 18y agoNot included is what to do if your data is location based. http://www.vimeo.com/1998080 http://www.vimeo.com/1998080
- eru 18y agohttp://www.UUorld.com/ http://www.UUorld.com/
- scw 18y agoThe source post, including a PDF version: http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/choosing_a_good.html http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/choosing... One failing of this diagram is its reliance on 'what Excel provides', including chart techniques that are difficult to interpret or misleading, such as pie charts and 3D area charts. Please, for the love of quantitative visualization, don't use 3D charts unless you understand the implications.
- jrockway 18y agoBut they really break up the monotony of the bullets-for-each-thought Powerpoint presentations! Or should I say: * 3D charts * good * break up monotony of * bulleted lists * boring presentations * unreadable * less questions about data * less uncomfortable moments
- callahad 18y ago"One failing of this diagram is its reliance on 'what Excel provides'" I'm not sure that's a failing. The majority of the folks producing charts ad hoc will be faced with that same constraint. This will, hopefully, help them make the best of their meager means.
- nandemo 18y agoI'm curious, what's wrong with pie charts?
- scw 18y agoPrimarily for two reasons: difficulty in comparison between charts, and because comparing area is more difficult than comparing length. The Wikipedia article has good background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart
- voidpointer 18y agoOn that matter, I heartily recommend Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information": http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
- schtono 18y agoMy recommendation here is: Zelazny, Gene - Say it with charts.
- zby 18y agoIn the broader subject of illustrating any thought I rather liked the suggestions of http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/ http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/. The main categories from it: who/what - portrait how much - chart where - map when - timeline how - flowchart why - multiple variable plot
- com 18y agoI like the Information Design site at http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/patterns.php http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/patterns.p... Click on the "Patterns" tab and select the categories on the left. patternbrowser.org is a bit too busy for my taste, too hard to structure my thinking about how to best chart information.
- matthias 18y agoAlso, a Periodic Table of Visualisation: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html# http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table...