The old standby. The classic. The bar height or length represents data. The baseline starts at zero.
Marimekko charts, or mosaic plots, allow you to compare categories over two quantitative variables.
This past month an old chart type poked its head out from behind the trees and I'm here for it.
Show current evolution against expected historical variability and add one or more series that could account for the difference.
Welcome to a new segment where I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who made a bad chart and try to make it better.
The dataisbeautiful subreddit announced a moratorium on the ever popular bar chart race. The frequency of submissions that used the method got out of hand and spam made it all the less savory. Still, the method holds value.
There's a new hotness in chart town. It's a bar chart. But it moves to show rankings over time.
The internet was once this fun place where people had goofy debates about…
We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.
Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…
For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…
With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…
Elian Peltier and Josh Holder for The New York Times highlight the vaccination…
Find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.
Since no one has figured out how to defeat time, age generations come and go. This chart shows the generational breakdowns since 1920.
We often hear about the Asian American community as one big group of…
You probably knew that coronavirus deaths have been in the several thousands per…
With this straightforward unit chart, wcd.fyi shows which generation each Senate member belonged…
It used to be that climate changed seemed like something far off in…
It seems like there’s been more player movement than usual over the years. Didn’t players used to play on a single team for the entirety of their careers?
Meanwhile… based on estimates from The COVID Tracking Project, the United States had…
As you might expect, early voting volume is high across the country. In…
From Dan Goodspeed, the bar chart race is back. The length of the…
