Typology of charts

Bee swarm plots

Example 2:

Source: Annie Karni, Malika Khurana and Stuart A. Thompson. How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack.

Grouped bar chart

Chart: @janzilinsky; Data: Thermometer ratings from VOTER Survey.

Density plot

Source: Eady et al. (2019)

Joyplot or ridgeplot

Source: Eady et al. (2019)

Heatmap

Here the cell entries of the number of cases per 100,000 people.

Source: http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/

Maps

Histograms

Maps with 2-dimensional color-coding:

Cartogram

Cartogram or a heatmap?

Boxplots

Source: imagineazhar

Types of bar charts

Time series plots

Standard line graphs

(But ask yourself: would you really believe this “finding”? What was the data-generating process? Are movies and shows really getting better?)

Emphasis on relative changes

Area chart

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A useful resource is the set of charts shown on this website: https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/