Chart Types Flashcards

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Bar Chart

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Provides a quick visual comparison of related values

Types: Bar, Column, Stacked Bar, Stacked Column

Stacked Bar/Column shows groups within each bar

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Calendar Heat Map Chart

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Visualizes recurring discrete activities, such as closing accounts, over a long period of time

You can easily change the granularity of the time-based grouping, such as from month to week or day

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Column Chart

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Shows relative counts of things

AKA “vertical bar chart”

Stacked Column shows groups within each bar

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Combo Chart

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Displays at least 2 related series of data, such as a bar chart overlaid with a line chart showing the average value

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Donut Chart

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Shows the proportion of each member against the total, with the total in the center

You can remove the center by selecting 0% from the Center Size menu – this changes it to a pie chart

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Dot Plot Chart

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Uses size and coloring of bubbles to display multiple dimensions and members

Can be horizontal or vertical

Use to compare performance or locate outliers

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Funnel Chart

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Visualizes sequential data that can be broken up into stages, like a sales cycle

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Gauge Chart

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Tracks progress along a single measure

Ex: current revenue against the target

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Bullet Chart

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Compares metrics against quantitative benchmarks and references

Ex: current revenue with target revenue

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Heat Map

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Visually enhances high and low value data when there’s a single measure and multiple dimensions

Similar to matrix, but uses color and not size

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Line Chart

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Useful for showing data over time

Use when you have one important grouping representing (time or other type of dimension) and one value

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Map Chart

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Use with geographical data

Can shade areas in proportion to mapped values

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Bubble Map Chart

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Visually indicates measure values in specified geographical areas

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Geo Map Chart

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Allows you to visualize data that contains geographical coordinates

Coordinates let you place visual data elementse more precisely

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Custom Map Chart

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Create a custom map if you have data with a geographical component that doesn’t match any of the standard maps

Ex: custom regions

Ex: areas that can be represented with polygons, like stadium seat sections, city blocks, or floor plans

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Matrix Chart

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A table that uses dot size and color so you can quickly spot extreme values

Ex: products for all customers, see which products are the most popular

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Origami Chart

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Creates a striking horizontal visualization to easily identify high and low value data when there’s a single measure and a single dimension

Like a horizontal “heat map” but with only one row, using both size and color

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Parallel Coordinates Chart

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Displays how data elements in a dimension stack up against each other

Use when you have multiple measures and a single dimension

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Pyramid Chart

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Visually highlights relative sizes of stacked dimension values

2 vertical bar charts, one on either side

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Radar Chart

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Displays a small dataset with one dimension and at least 3 measure columns

Visually represents a dimension along 3 or more measure axes that have different scales

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Ratings Chart

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Displays how well a measured quality, like customer satisfaction, is meeting expectations

Shows how close you are to a goal

Looks like the star rating system on Yelp

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Sankey Chart

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Visualizes the distribution of a measure from one dimension to another

Performs calculations based on the absolute value of each measure

Doesn’t support scroll and doesn’t render when there’s not enough space

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Scatter Chart

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Visualizes correlation between two groups of data

2 measures, one on each axis, with colors and size

Ex: analyze the correlation between total opportunity amount and number of opportunities for product families

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Timeline Chart

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Column chart with the horizontal axis showing a time dimension

Visualizes changes over time with vertical bars

Illustrates relative changes over time and highlights missing data

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Time Combo Chart
Shows two or more measures over time; each measure can be a line or a bar If using multiple bars, you can stack them to compare parts of the whole They can be on the same or separate axes
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Treemap Chart
Visualizes hierarchical quantitative data Containing rectangles designate relationship using color Leaf rectangles represent quantity using area
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Waterfall Chart
Shows a running total as values are added or subtracted Useful for understanding how an initial value is affected by a series of positive and negative values AKA *flying bricks* or *Mario charts* Stacked waterfall chart includes breakdowns of value totals