> Part-to-whole charts
Pie chart Donut pie chart Heat maps Stacked column chart Treemap charts
The Data Visualization Cheat Sheet
Learn Data Visualization online at www.DataCamp.com One of the most common ways to
show part to whole data. It is also
The donut pie chart is a variant of the
pie chart, the difference being it has a
Heatmaps are two-dimensional charts
that use color shading to represent
Best to compare subcategories within
categorical data. Can also be used to
2D rectangles whose size is
proportional to the value being
commonly used with percentages hole in the center for readability data trends. compare percentages measured and can be used to display
hierarchically structured data
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Voting preference by age grou Android OS market shar Average monthly temperatures Quarterly sales per regio Grocery sales count with
Market share of cloud providers Monthly sales by channel across the year Total car sales by producer categorie
Departments with the highest Stock price comparison by
amount of attrition over time industry and company
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> Capture a trend > Visualize a single value > Capture distributions
Line chart Multi-line chart Area chart Stacked area chart Spline chart Card Table chart Gauge chart Histogram Box plot Violin plot Density plot
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Cards are great for showing Best to be used on small This chart is often used in Shows the distribution of a Shows the distribution of a A variation of the box plot.
Visualizes a distribution by
The most straightforward way to Captures multiple numeric Shows how a numeric value Most commonly used variation of Smoothened version of a line chart. and tracking KPIs in datasets, it displays tabular executive dashboard reports variable. It converts variable using 5 key It also shows the full using smoothing to allow
capture how a numeric variable is variables over time. It can include progresses by shading the area area charts, the best use is to track It differs in that data points are dashboards or presentations data in a table
to show relevant KPIs numerical data into bins as summary statistics— distribution of the data smoother distributions and
changing over time multiple axes allowing comparison between line and the x-axis the breakdown of a numeric value connected with smoothed curves columns. The x-axis shows minimum, first quartile, alongside summary statistics better capture the
of different units and scale ranges by subgroups to account for missing values, as the range, and the y-axis median, third quartile, and distribution shape of the data
opposed to straight lines represents the frequency maximum
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Revenue in $ over tim Apple vs Amazon stocks Total sales over tim Active users over time by Electricity consumption over Revenue to date on a Account executive NPS score Distribution of salaries in Gas efficiency of vehicle Time spent in restaurants Distribution of price of
Energy consumption in kWh over tim Active users over time segmen tim sales dashboar leaderboard Revenue to target an organizatio Time spent reading across across age group hotel listing
over tim Lebron vs Steph Curry Total revenue over time by CO2 emissions over time Total sign-ups after a Registrations per webinar Distribution of height in readers Length of pill effects by Comparing NPS scores by
Google searches over time searches over tim country promotion one cohort dose customer segment
Bitcoin vs Ethereum price
over time
> Visualize relationships > Visualize a flow
Bar chart Column chart Scatter plot Connected scatterplot Bubble chart Word cloud chart Sankey chart Chord chart Network chart
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One of the easiest charts to Also known as a vertical bar Most commonly used chart A hybrid between a scatter Often used to visualize data A convenient visualization for Useful for representing flows in Useful for presenting Similar to a graph, it
read which helps in quick
comparison of categorical
chart, where the categories
are placed on the x-axis.
when observing the
relationship between two
plot and a line plot, the
scatter dots are connected
points with 3 dimensions,
namely visualized on the x-
visualizing the most prevalent
words that appear in a text
systems. This flow can be any
measurable quantity
weighted relationships or
flows between nodes.
consists of nodes and
interconnected edges. It
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data. One axis contains These are preferred over bar variables. It is especially with a line axis, y-axis, and with the size Especially useful for illustrates how different www.DataCamp.com
categories and the other axis charts for short labels, date useful for quickly surfacing of the bubble. It tries to show highlighting the dominant or items have relationships
represents values ranges, or negatives in values potential correlations relations between data points important flows
with each other
between data points using location and size
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Volume of google Brand market shar Display the relationship Cryptocurrency price Adwords analysis: CPC vs Top 100 used words by Energy flow between Export between countries How different airports are
searches by regio Profit Analysis by region between time-on-platform inde Conversions vs Share of customers in customer countrie to showcase biggest connected worldwide
Market share in revenue and chur Visualizing timelines and total conversion service tickets Supply chain volumes export partner Social media friend group
by product Display the relationship events when analyzing Relationship between life between warehouses Supply chain volumes analysis
between salary and years two variables expectancy, GDP per between the largest
spent at company capita, & population size warehouses
