Stacked Area Chart

Place multiple categories on top of each other for a sense of distribution and overall change. Watch out for large counts eclipsing the small ones.

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Examples

Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Adoption in the States

About 4% of registered light-duty vehicles in the United States are either electric,…

Make the Chart: Grid Map with Stacked Areas

Breaking it down to the small steps and choices with data, code, and editing that lead to a finished chart.

Renting vs. Owning a Home as We Get Older

One-third of households are rented and the other two-thirds are owned or in the process. However, the difference between renting and owning changes with age.

Shifting to batteries for electricity

To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…

Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…

Billion dollar natural disasters

For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…

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…

Weather Strip, an app that shows the forecast as a time series

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

Evolution of coronavirus strains

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

Timeline of the President’s taxes

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

Shifts in Job Distribution

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.

Cost of College

We know that more education usually equals more income, but as the cost of education continues to rise, the challenge to earn a college degree also increases.