Gallery: Proportional area chart
Parallel Sets is a technique for visualizing categorical data. It helps you get away from representing individual data points, and instead show sets and subsets of items with certain combinations of criteria.<br />This example illustrates the people on board the Titanic. In a way, ParSets is a mix between parallel coordinates and treemaps/mosaic plots.
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treemap, parallel coordinates, comparative chart, proportional area chart
Shows the sample's level of concern about poverty in poor countries. Sample is categorised between the sample's segments (eg., activists, sympathisers).
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Measuring statements from survey
A survey gives a list of statements to choose from - from weak to strong statements. This shows that the sample was split between negative and positive views on the Government's role.
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Pictorial stacked percentage chart
Percentage of carbon cost for various activities involved in making one bottle of Innocent smoothie vs one can of Coke.<br /><br />There is a major misleading aspect to this visualisation: The use of varying widths for the two bars suggests to the viewer that the coke can produces significantly more CO2 than the smoothie bottle. Examination of the text shows that this is not the case.
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UK household consumption - selected areas.
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Number of infant deaths per 100,000 live births in selected countries.
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US Box Office data, showing takings and ranking each week. This visualisation is based on the data and original idea displayed <a href="/vis/id=282">here</a> but uses an alternative method to calculate and depict the areas on the graph.
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Summary performance of Hartlepool on key child health indicators.
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bar chart, scorecard, proportional area chart, deviation bar graph, traffic light, stacked bar chart
Academic citations between journals (boxes) and fields (colours). 'Compass points' indicate citations for a specific journal - incoming (white arrow) and outgoing (black arrow).
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BME population by sex, limiting long-term illness and not in good health(excluding White British group) in Staffordshire.
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CO2 Emissions in Essex and Districts in 2004 in quantity and per head.
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bar chart, proportional area chart, combination chart, point chart, stacked bar chart
Area line chart showing change in housing completions for different time periods.
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Chart showing the employment composition of the most employment deprived areas over time.
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Chart measuring impact of interventions
Chart measuring interventions which would have the fastest impact on the infant mortality target.
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Proportion of average weekly household expenditure by rural and urban areas, 2005-6.
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Stacked bar chart comparing citizens advice bureau issues for different geographical areas.
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Renewable energy targets 2000-2016.
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Life expectancy by disease (for males) in Hammersmith and Fulham and England.
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Pie and zoom-in-stacked column
Ethnic minority breakdown in a Rotherham ward.
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pie chart, table, proportional area chart, 100% stacked bar chart
Spider pie graph of deaths by year 1854-1855.
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Personicx-Geo Interactive Spider
Geodemographic clusters and average age band. Also provides background information on the cluster.
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Music artists listened to over time, using data taken from last.fm
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A brief history immigration in the United States, winner of a Flowing Data competition.
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