Typically used to show trends over time, the slope of the line between two points shows patterns of change.
Put multiple time series lines on the same plot, and you quickly end up with a mess. Here are practical ways to clean it up.
Show current evolution against expected historical variability and add one or more series that could account for the difference.
Using R, we look at how your decreased interaction with others can help slow the spread of infectious diseases.
The chart type can be used to show patterns over time and relationships between variables. This is a comprehensive introduction to making them using two common libraries.
Visualize rankings over time instead of absolute values to focus on order instead of the magnitude of change.
By shifting the baseline to a reference point, you can focus a line chart on relative change, which can improve the visibility of smaller categories.
The Gartner hype cycle is a graphical representation of where certain technologies are…
For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of…
What is old? When it comes to subjects like health care and retirement, we often think of old in fixed terms. But as people live longer, it's worth changing the definition.
Businesses are still seeing visits mostly down compared to last year, which shouldn’t…
From the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University, the results from an analysis…
The volume of mail-in ballots will likely be higher than usual this year,…
You've probably heard the lines about how "40 is the new 30" or "30 is the new 20." What is this based on? I tried to solve the problem using life expectancy data. Your age is the new age.
In search of songs that define music in the 1990s, Matt Daniels and…
The numbers are high here in the United States, and at this point,…
Unemployment has hit the United States hard over the past several months, for…
Twitter was hacked yesterday. Over a few hours, prominent accounts were tweeting that…
Restaurants are reopening for dining across the United States. Some states are doing it faster than others.
We looked at shifts in job distribution over the past several decades, but it was difficult to see by how much each occupation group changed individually. This chart makes the changes more obvious.
People tend to have more money saved up over time, but range and variation also grow, and often it’s not enough.
As industries change and interests shift, some bachelor's degrees grow more popular while others become less so.
There's big money in wizarding worlds, galaxies far away, and various time-shifted universes. Let's take a stroll through the billions of dollars earned by franchises over the years.
