Conventional visualizations
Histogram, Pie Chart, Stacked bar graph & Venn diagram
Histogram
- Important first way of
looking at your data
- One dimensional
- Shows shape by binning
a continuous
distribution
Grouped histogram
Pie chart
- A whole split into parts
- Emphasizes that all
parts sum to a constant
- Single dimension with
discrete categories
Stacked bar graph
- Wholes split into
parts
- Easy to compare
- often better than pie
chart
- Can have multiple
discrete dimensions
Venn diagram
- Shows overlap
between discrete
groups
- Sometimes the
only way to
display
overlapping sets
- Unintuitive
