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Gallery: Time line + Combination chart + Area chart

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How to create your own

Create your own: area chart

  • Area charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Create your own: combination chart

  • Some combination charts, such as bar and line charts, can be created in standard applications such as Excel (using more than one axis). Others can be combined by saving visualisations as image files and combining in an image editor.

Create your own: time line

  • Time lines can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel More sophisticated visualisations can be created using commercial packages such as Tableau, or development languages such as Processing.

Time line: Globlal media scare stories

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This time line relies on the use of area charts on several depth levels. Each chart presents the number of stories per topic against time giving a good sense of the evolution trough time of media coverage of some recent news.
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