{"id":629,"date":"2012-02-17T04:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2012-07-27T06:12:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T06:12:36","slug":"which-chart-type-for-which-purpose-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/which-chart-type-for-which-purpose-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Chart Type For Which Purpose &#8211; Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Great data deserves an eye-catching presentation (Check out some of the coolest visualizations on <a title=\"Visual.ly\" href=\"http:\/\/visual.ly\/\">visual.ly<\/a>), but most charting and graph-making software offers an overwhelming array of options. Andrew at the Extreme Presentation Method blog offers a flowchart to pick the wisest choice. Andrew&#8217;s flowchart, shown below as a JPG, starts with the question &#8220;What would you like to show?&#8221;\u2014comparison, distribution, composition, or relationship\u2014and drills down from there based on how much and what type of data you&#8217;ve got to show. Engineers and other Excel wizards probably have this knowledge hard-coded in their mouse fingers, but it&#8217;s still a great reference tool for them or anyone looking to show a lot of data and not have it all look the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/which-chart-type-for-which-purpose-infographic\/which_charts_for_which_data\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-630\" title=\"which_charts_for_which_data\" src=\"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-content\/post_content\/\/2012\/02\/which_charts_for_which_data.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, enclosed below, is a comprehensive infographic on which chart types are used for what purpose. The author, Daniel Waisberg from online-behavior.com, does not intend to provide a comprehensive list, neither an accurate explanation of each (you will note!). However, he does provide a &#8216;tell me which graphs you use and I will tell you who you are&#8217; cheat sheet where he describes some of the personality types of people using different charts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/which-chart-type-for-which-purpose-infographic\/charts-graphs-types\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-633\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-633\" title=\"charts-graphs-types\" src=\"http:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-content\/post_content\/\/2012\/02\/charts-graphs-types.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"1130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great data deserves an eye-catching presentation (Check out some of the coolest visualizations on visual.ly), but most charting and graph-making software offers an overwhelming array of options. Andrew at the Extreme Presentation Method blog offers a flowchart to pick the wisest choice. Andrew&#8217;s flowchart, shown below as a JPG, starts with the question &#8220;What would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52,15],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-that","tag-this-and-that","tag-visualisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicortex.com\/bicortex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}