Types of Charts
Completion requirements
These lecture note slides walk through various charting options at your disposal. The slide collection also includes some working examples to show how one dataset can be visualized with many different charts. Take note of which charts are associated with each data type. Some are quite creative.
Trouble
- High Dimensionality Doesn't Guarantee Excellence
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Messy bar graphs
- Sometimes you can discretize way too many variables
- Sometimes you can discretize way too many variables
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Too much data for one plot
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Difficulty of comparison
- Bad semantics