Unit Chart

A symbol is used for each unit to place emphasis on individuals or objects.

Tutorials and Guides

How to Make a Tiled Bar Chart with D3.js

Show individual data points by splitting bars into smaller cells.

How to Make Unit Charts with Icon Images in R

Make the unit chart less abstract with icons that represent the data, or use this in place of a bar chart.

Symbols-based Unit Charts to Show Counts in R

Add visual weight by using individual items to show counts.

Examples

One Drink Per Day, Your Chances of Developing an Alcohol-Related Condition

While a drink a day might increase your risk of experiencing an alcohol-related condition, the change is low in absolute numbers.

How Different Income Groups Spend Money

After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?

Mass exodus at human scale

Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…

Giving Up Time as a Parent

There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?

How the Average Working Adult Spends Days

This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.

Largest data breaches of all time

As I’m sure you know, Sony has been having all sorts of data…