Area Chart

The space between the data and the baseline is filled with a color or a pattern, usually emphasizing counts or percentages for a single variable.

Tutorials and Guides

How to Draw and Use Polygons in R

R provides functions for basic shapes, but you can also draw your own for maximum fun.

Debating About Visualization – The Process 172

The discussions this week felt familiar. Probably because we've seen this many times, since the beginning of charts themselves.

How to Make a Custom Stacked Area Chart in R

You could use a package, but then you couldn't customize every single element, and where's the fun in that?

How to Make a Customized Excess Mortality Chart in Excel

Show current evolution against expected historical variability and add one or more series that could account for the difference.

How to Visualize Proportions in R

There are many ways to show parts of a whole. Here are quick one-liners for the more common ones.

How to Make an Interactive Stacked Area Chart

Stacked area charts let you see categorical data over time. Interaction allows you to focus on specific categories without losing sight of the big picture.

Examples

Single Parents

In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.

Past and present California drought severity

It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most…

Reservoir refills in California

There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to…

Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream

I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…

Oldest U.S. government

Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal, for Insider, show the disproportionately aging…

Housing displacement after disasters

Christopher Flavelle, for The New York Times, reported on the lack of support…

Working the triple peak

Microsoft researchers analyzed keystrokes by time of day, for a sample of Microsoft…

Your place in the world population

Population.io by World Data Lab asks your birthday, country of residence, and gender.…

NameGrapher to explore past baby name trends

NameGrapher is an interactive chart that lets you explore historical trends for baby…

Reducing the risk of nuclear war

For Our World in Data, Max Roser discusses the risk and possible destruction…

Television Genres Over Time

Here's how the distribution of genres has changed since 1945 up to present.

How Men and Women Spend Their Days

Using an oldie but goodie visualization format to look at time use between different groups.

Black mortality gap

Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…

Daily Routine, 2020

After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let's look at when we spent our time.

How We Spent Our Time in 2020 Versus 2019

Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.

Olympic medal tracker

The Bloomberg medal tracker is fun to look at. I think the graphics…

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