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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weather Strip is a new weather app by visualization researcher Robin Stewart. It…

To see all the matches from the group stage of Euro 2020 in…

The 2020 Census count at the state level is set for release this…

Reuters looked at how seven main strains of the virus evolved around the…

For The New York Times, Ella Koeze looks at the various types of…

The New York Times got a hold of the President’s tax records for…

For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Kevin Schaul charted how long it…

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

In the 1950s, almost half of all employed people were either in farming or manufacturing. As you can imagine, work changed a bit over the years.

People tend to have more money saved up over time, but range and variation also grow, and often it’s not enough.

I compared time use for those with children under 18 against those without. Here's where the minutes go.