Types of Charts

Conventional visualizations

Heat map & Bubble plot

Conventional visualizations

Heat map

  • Works very well when there are natural semantics
  • Color mapping can be problematic 
    • grayscale usually fine 
  • Can be unintuitive

Heat map


Bubble plot 

  • Can be very intuitive
  • Size is not perfectly quantitative

Bubble plot


Trellis plots

Trellis plots