Which chart is appropriate for your data analysis?
Are you often confused about which chart to plot for particular data analysis?
I myself started as a novice in data analytics, came across an insightful book The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios
Here are some basic charts and where exactly there should be used.
Enjoy reading!!
Bar Chart- Due to the length the bars represent they are best suited to represent a measure
Line Chart- These charts are used to depict the changes in the quantity over a specific period of time
Scatterplot: These charts are ideal for comparing two measures. They are represented by dots which also helps to establish the relationship between them.
Dot Plot- It also represents the weights or values across two dimensions
Choropleth Map- This map helps to identify the values across the different geographical regions by using shades of color.
Highlight table- This table is used to represent the detailed data in tables, but adding a layer of color encoding helps to identify the weightage of the dimension instantly.
Bullet graph- These graphs are best suited for benchmarking, it has a blue bar showing the actual value and a black line showing the target value and gray shading to represent performance bands.
