Picking the Right Chart for Your Data

Discover how to think more strategically about your data. Learn how to pick the best visual display for the type of data you're working with—and your ultimate communication goals.

Introduction

• Choose wisely
• What you should know

1. Getting to KWYRWTS

• What are the KWYs?
• Getting to KWYs

2. The Standards

• Chart categories
• Comparisons: Bars and columns
• Comparisons: Beyond bars
• Trends: Line charts
• Trends: Beyond the line
• Proportions: Pie charts and more
• Proportions: Beyond the circle
• Relationships: Correlation
• Relationships: Hierarchical and network
• Relationships: Flow
• Distribution: Histograms
• Distribution: Beyond histograms
• Deviation
• Geographic

3. Beyond the Standards

• To cumulative or not cumulative?
• Outside the box

Conclusion

• Wrapping it up