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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tmcw/visualization-cheatsheet
• Owner: tmcw
• Created: 2014-03-13T05:34:02.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-08-03T17:38:13.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-20T14:57:17.835Z (9 months ago)
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• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Visualization Cheatsheet

What kind of data do you have, and what are you trying to show about it?

* Quantities, showing the differences between them

  * Bar Chart

* Percentages out of 100%

  * Pie Chart

  * Donut Chart

  * One stacked bar chart

* Percentages out of 100%, with multiple sub-divisions

  * Tree map

* Temporal data of one quantity

  * Area chart

* Temporal data of multiple quantities

  * Multiple area charts

* Multiple attributes of multiple objects

  * [Parallel coordinates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_coordinates)

* Transfers between multiple places

  * Flame chart

* Quantities of a flow of money or materials going into different places at different times

  * [Sankey diagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram)

How many dimensions does your data have?

* **One**

  * [Histogram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram)

* **Two**

  * Independent

    * [Scatter plot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter_plot)

  * Dependent

    * Continuous

      * Values

        * [Line chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_chart)

      * Quantities

        * [Area chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_chart)

      * High-range values

        * Horizon chart

    * Discrete

      * Bar chart

* **Three**

  * Independent

    * Continuous

      * 3D-surface chart

    * Discrete

      * [Bubble chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_chart)

      * Color-coded scatter plot

  * Dependent

      * Continuous

        * Quantities 

          * Absolute 

             * Stacked area chart

          * Relative

             * Percentage stacked area chart

        * Values

          * Line chart

* **Many**

  * [Small multiples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_multiple)

  * [Parallel Coordinates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_coordinates)