Data Visualization

This guide collects resources and tutorials related to data visualization.

The visualizations

Bar / Column Charts

Estimated number of heat pumps in Europe. Chris Woodford. Chris Woodford/explainthatstuff.com. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

 

Table charts

 

Periodic table of popular typefaces. Jeremiah Easter. Wikipedia. Periodic-table-chart-of-popular-type-typefaces-fonts.jpg  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

 

Histograms

Deaths by horsekick in Prussian cavalry corps. Snappy Goat. https://snappygoat.com.R-horsekick totals-histogram+quartiles.svg. Public Domain.

 

Box and Whisker Plots

 

 

Box-and-whisker-plots of estimated incubation periods for coronaviruses from different studies from Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China. James A. Backer et al. Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China, 20–28 January 2020 - 2000062-f3.gif . Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) .

 

 

Population Pyramid / Age-gender pyramid

 

 

Population pyramid of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in the year 2020.Otets at Luxembourgish Wikipedia. Wikimedia. Population pyramid of Luxembourg 2020.png. Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Luxembourg .

 

Radial bar chart

 

 

Radial bar chart challenge. Lisa Adell Carlson. https://thetablebar.blogspot.com/2017/12/radial-bar-chart-in-tableau.html#.

 

Radial column chart

 

 

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Radial Bar Chart? https://www.flerlagetwins.com/2019/02/whos-afraid-of-big-bad-radial-bar-chart_21.html

 

Tally chart

Talley marks. Nijdam. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYW-Tally.png.  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International .

 

Small  multiple chart  / Trellis chartLattice chart / Grid chartPanel chart)

 

Percentage change in civil service staff numbers (FTE) by department, September 2010 to September 2020. Institute for Government analysis of ONS. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/file/small-multiples-chart-q3-2020-v1png. CC Attribution- Non-commercial.