How to make a chart
34 step by step guides, one for every chart type, from data shape to a finished chart.
Comparing values
Charts for ranking things and comparing sizes across categories.
Comparing valuesHow to Create a Bar Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Column Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Dumbbell Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Gantt Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Grouped Bar Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Grouped Column Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Polar Area Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Radar Chart
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Data Table
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Comparing valuesHow to Create a Word Cloud
About 8 minRead the guideParts of a whole
Charts that break a total into the parts it is made of.
Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Donut Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Funnel Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Marimekko Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Pie Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Stacked Bar Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Stacked Column Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Sunburst Chart
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Parts of a wholeHow to Create a Treemap
About 8 minRead the guideChange over time
Charts that show how values change across time.
Change over timeHow to Create an Area Chart
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Change over timeHow to Create a Bump Chart
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Change over timeHow to Create a Line Chart
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Change over timeHow to Create a Stream Graph
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Change over timeHow to Create a Timeline
About 7 minRead the guideRelationships
Charts that show how two or more measures move together.
RelationshipsHow to Create a Bubble Chart
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RelationshipsHow to Create a Chord Diagram
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RelationshipsHow to Create a Quadrant Chart
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RelationshipsHow to Create a Sankey Diagram
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RelationshipsHow to Create a Scatter Plot
About 7 minRead the guideDistribution
Charts that show how values spread out across a range.
DistributionHow to Create a Box Plot
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DistributionHow to Create a Heatmap
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DistributionHow to Create a Histogram
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DistributionHow to Create a Population Pyramid
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DistributionHow to Create a Violin Plot
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Charts that show how a value varies across geography.
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