Chapter 8. Chart Them Up
In this chapter we will cover:
- Creating a line chart
- Creating an area chart
- Creating a scatter plot chart
- Creating a bubble chart
- Creating a bar chart
Introduction
In this chapter, we will turn our attention to one of the oldest and well trusted companions in data visualization—charts. Charts are a well defined and well understood graphical representation of data; the following definition just confirms it:
(In charts) the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart.
Jensen C. & Anderson L. (1991)
When charts are used in data visualization, their well understood graphical semantics and syntax relieve the audience of your visualization from the burden of learning the ...
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