Essential Chart Types for Data

Visualization
 The Foundational Four

Bar Chart Line Chart

Heatmaps Box Plot

Chart
ADDITIONAL CHARTS

Histogram Scatter Plot

When to use Bar Chart

Bar charts should be used when you are showing segments of information. Vertical bar charts are useful to
compare different categorical or discrete variables, such as age groups, classes, schools, etc., as long as there are
not too many categories to compare. They are also very useful for time series data
When to use Line Chart

Line graphs are used to track changes over short and long periods of time.. Line graphs can also be used to
compare changes over the same period of time for more than one group.
When to use Heatmaps Chart

Heat Maps are perhaps most commonly used to display a more generalized view of numeric values. This is
especially true when dealing with large volumes of data, as colors are easier to distinguish and make sense of
than raw numbers.
When to use Box Plot

Box plots are used to show distributions of numeric data values, especially when you want to compare them
between multiple groups
When to use Histogram

It is often used to illustrate the major features of the distribution of the data in a convenient form. It is also
useful when dealing with large data sets (greater than 100 observations).
When to use Scatter Plot

A scatter plot is composed of a horizontal axis containing the measured values of one variable (independent variable) and a vertical axis
representing the measurements of the other variable (dependent variable). The purpose of the scatter plot is to display what happens to
one variable when another variable is changed.
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