Types of Charts
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.
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
Multiple plots
Multiple axes
