Types of Charts

Tips and Tricks

Three tricks for doing more with less

  • Multiple plots
    • simple, easily interpretable subplots
    • can be beautiful but overwhelming
  • Hybrid plots
    • a scatter plot of histograms
    • or a venn-diagram of histograms, etc. 
  • Multiple axes
    • plot two (or more) different things on one graph
Hybrid plots

Hybrid plots

Hybrid plots

Hybrid plots


Multiple plots

Multiple plots

Multiple plots

Multiple plots

Multiple plots

Multiple axes

Multiple axes

Multiple axes