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.
Conventional visualizations
Heat map & Bubble plot
Heat map
- Works very well when there are natural semantics
- Color mapping can be problematic
- grayscale usually fine
- Can be unintuitive
Bubble plot
- Can be very intuitive
- Size is not perfectly quantitative
Trellis plots
