DATA VISUALIZATION

The area chart or area graph is used to display quantitative data. Use it when comparing one to another or more quantities. It is also beneficial for showing trends. Use colors to differentiate variables.

The bar chart is one of the most often used visualizations. It is used to show changes over time or to compare different categories and part-whole connections. The bars are placed vertically and differentiated by colors.

The BiPartite chart is used to show a connection between two categorical variables (columns). With this chart, subsegments can be easily examined. It is a very popular chart among AnswerMiner users.

The Box Plot is a tool in descriptive statistics that can help you to get a clearer picture of the distribution and the most important values or outliers in your dataset at the same time.

The Bubble Cloud a great tool to show the distribution of categorical values and also add more dimensions by using size and color.

The Bubble Plot is a complex chart that is a scatter plot with more dimensions: separations, size, and color. It is used to visualize numerical values that are segmented by different categories.

The Bullet chart is a variation of the bar chart. It is used to compare one or more measures and highlight target numbers like KPIs.

The Column chart is very similar to bar chart. It is also used to show distributions, but instead of horizontal bars it uses standing, vertical columns. It can improve with coloring dimensions.

The Cross tab is a table where two or more variables are cross-tabulated. It can be a great representation of information with limited columns and rows, otherwise it can be difficult to understand.

The Donut chart is an alternative to the Pie chart. It shows the same information with a bit change of the design.

The Gauge chart is or also called speedometer is to show a single value. It can be numerical or categorical value. For numerical values, some kind of aggregations (mean, median, sum) is used. For categorical data, a chance is displayed in percentage.

The Heatmap is a data visualization technique that helps to discover focus points and groups in data by using color in two dimensions. The strength of the color shows where the data point are grouped. By default the darker the data the higher the density is.

Histograms are column-shaped charts, in which each column represents a range of the values, and the height of a column corresponds to how many values are in that range. Select a numerical column in your dataset and AnswerMiner will create the Histogram automatically.

The KPI chart is as simple as it names said. It shows one numerical value, which is mostly a KPI. Sometimes one number tels more than any visualization.

The Line chart is one of the most popular chart types. It is a great graph to visualize time series. On the X-axis can be showed the time from left to right and the Y-axis shows the values. Use it to show trends, changes, or seasonality by time.

The Line Range chart shows almost the same information as the line chart, but it also shows the low and top 25% that helps to understand the meaning of the chart.

The Map chart shows country, city, or any kind of geographically related aggregations on a map.

In parallel coordinates plot or simply parallel coordinates, each quantitative variable is represented by an equally spaced vertical line. All the other lines that connect axes are separate values. The scaling of the axes can be different as each variable has its own measurement unit or it can be normalized to keep the uniformity.

The Pie chart is one of the most used and misused distribution charts. That shows the distribution of the given data with the size of a “slice”.

The Polar bar chart is a visualization for date-time and numerical data. It works the best for monthly, daily or hourly representation of numerical data like sales value, ordered quantity, or other financial data.

The Scatter Plot is perfect to show the correlation between two numerical variables and also show trends. All data points are placed in a two-dimensional coordinate system.

The Summary chart contains all the important statistical information about the selected column, Range, Average, Median, Standard deviation, and so on.

The table chart is a table where you can create a new aggregate table from the original dataset. First, select a categorical variable to display in rows and then add columns. When adding a column you can select from different aggregations.

The TreeMap is a tool to display distribution with area size. Coloring can be used as an additional dimension.

The Work Cloud is a very good way to highlight a specific category or value. This chart is less informative than other visualizations but looks very good on a dashboard or infographic.