Chart Type Guide

This guide will help with selecting the most appropriate chart choice for your visualization.

Consider your data and how you want it to be represented then select any of the chart type functions below to see a host of chart types that fit that particular group. Every chart type comes with an example and a description to help you along the way!

Chart Type Functions

Comparisons

Show the differences or similarities between values

Distribution

Techniques for visualising the distribution, clustering, and frequency of data

Hierarchy

Displaying the hierarchy and classification of data or objects within a system through visualization techniques

Location

Methods of data visualization that show data over geographical areas

Movement & Flow

Visualization techniques that can be used to show how data moves or flows

Patterns

Visualization methods that can reveal shapes or patterns in the data to give it meaning.

Processes

Visualization techniques that help explain how things work or how they work

Proportions

Visualization methods that use size or area to show differences or similarities between values or for parts of a whole

Range

Methods for visualising the differences between a scale's upper and lower limits

Referencing

Visualization techniques that can be used as a quick way to look up single data points

Relationships

Data visualization techniques that display interrelationships and dependencies among variables, or that reveal associations between several pieces of information

Text

Pattern and insight-discovering visualization techniques applied to text

Time Series

Time series visualizations display data over a period of time to help identify patterns or shifts in the data