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Data Visualization Cheat Sheet

The document provides descriptions and examples uses of various types of charts used for data visualization including bar charts, column charts, scatter plots, bubble charts, word clouds, line charts, area charts, pie charts, heat maps, and treemap charts. Each chart type is described in one to two sentences and examples of potential use cases are given to illustrate when each type of chart would be most applicable.

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Data Visualization Cheat Sheet

The document provides descriptions and examples uses of various types of charts used for data visualization including bar charts, column charts, scatter plots, bubble charts, word clouds, line charts, area charts, pie charts, heat maps, and treemap charts. Each chart type is described in one to two sentences and examples of potential use cases are given to illustrate when each type of chart would be most applicable.

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Bar chart Column chart Scatter plot Connected scatterplot Bubble charts World cloud chart

It is useful to display the Also known as a vertical bar It is used to show the A hybrid between a scatter Bubble charts show the data in A convenient visualization for
absolute data that include chart, where the categories are relationship between two plot and a line plot, the scatter the form of a circle. The values visualizing the most prevalent
negative values. One axis placed on the x-axis. These are different variables by using the dots are connected with a line of the variables are words that appear in a text.
contains categories, and the preferred over bar charts for dots that represent the values represented by the x-axis and This can be used to visualize
other axis represents values short labels, date ranges, or obtained from two different y-axis. The size of the circle the relationship between
negatives in values. variables represents the measure of the different words that appear
variables together or capture a trend on
the most commonly prevalent
words

USE CASES USE CASES USE CASES USE CASES USE CASES USE CASES
1. Volume of google searches 1. Brand market share 1. Display the relationship 1. Cryptocurrency price index 1. Adwords analysis: CPC vs 1. Top 100 used words by
by region 2. Profit Analysis by region between time-on-platform 2. Visualizing timelines and Conversions vs Share of customers in customer
2. Market share in revenue by and churn events when analyzing two total conversions service tickets
Learn Microsoft Power BI at www.tanducits.com product 2. Display the relationship variables 2. Relationship between life
between salary and years expectancy, GDP per capita,
spent at company & population size

Line chart Multi-line chart Area chart Stacked area chart Spline chart Pie chart Donut pie chart Heat maps Stacked column chart Treemap charts

The most explicit way to Captures multiple numeric Shows the trend changes Most commonly used Smoothened version of a line One of the most common The donut pie chart is a Heatmaps are two- Best to compare 2D rectangles whose size is
capture the trends over a variables over time. It can over time and can be used to variation of area charts, the chart. It differs in that data ways to show part to whole variant of the pie chart, the dimensional charts that use subcategories within proportional to the value
period of time include multiple axes attract the attention of the best use is to track the points are connected with data. It is also commonly difference being it has a hole color shading to represent categorical data. Can also be being measured and can be
allowing comparison of audiences to know the total breakdown of a numeric smooth curves to account for used with percentages in the center for readability data trends used to compare used to display hierarchically
different units and scale changes across the trends value by subgroups missing values, as opposed percentages structured data
ranges to straight lines

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1. Revenue in $ over time 1. Apple vs Amazon stocks 1. Total sales over time 1. Active users over time by 1. Electricity consumption 1. Voting preference by age 1. Android OS market share 1. Average monthly 1. Quarterly sales per region 1. Grocery sales count with
2. Energy consumption in over time 2. Active users over time segment over time group 2. Monthly sales by channel temperatures across the 2. Total car sales by producer categories
kWh over time 2. Lebron vs Steph Curry 2. Total revenue over time by 2. CO2 emissions over time 2. Market share of cloud year 2. Stock price comparison by
3. Google searches over time searches over time country providers 2. Departments with the industry and company
3. Bitcoin vs Ethereum price highest amount of
over time attrition over time

Sankey chart Chord chart Network chart Histograms Box plot Violin plot Density plot Card Table chart Gauge chart

Useful for representing flows Useful for presenting Similar to a graph, it consists Shows the distribution of Shows the distribution of A variation of the box Visualizes a distribution Cards are great for showing Best to be used on small This chart is often used in
in systems. This flow can be weighted relationships or of nodes and interconnected a variable. It converts a variable using 5 key plot. It also shows the full by using smoothing to and tracking KPIs in datasets, it displays tabular executive dashboard reports
any measurable quantity flows between nodes. edges. It illustrates how numerical data into bins summary statistics— distribution of the data allow smoother dashboards or presentations data in a table to show relevant KPIs
Especially useful for different items have as columns. The x-axis minimum, first quartile, alongside summary distributions and better
highlighting the dominant relationships with each other shows the range, and the median, third quartile, statistics capture the distribution
or important flows y-axis represents the and maximum shape of the data
frequency
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1. Energy flow between 1. Export between countries 1. How different airports are
1. Distribution of salaries 1. Gas efficiency of 1. Time spent in 1. Distribution of price of 1. Revenue to date on a sales 1. Account executive 1. NPS scores
countries to showcase biggest connected worldwide
in an organization vehicles restaurants across age hotel listings dashboard leaderboards 2. Revenue to target
2. Supply chain volumes export partners 2. Social media friend group
2. Distribution of height 2. Time spent reading groups 2. Comparing NPS scores 2. Total sign-ups after a 2. Registrations per webinar
between warehouses 2. Supply chain volumes analysis
in one cohort across readers 2. Length of pill effects by by customer segment promotion
between the largest
dose
warehouses

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