Polar coordinates
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Pie plots
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ESPN famous athletes, by sport
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Bar plot + polar coords = pie plot
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When should you use polar coordinates?
Almost never.
If you have a variable that is naturally circular (time of day, compass direction).
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Histogram of animal activity
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Histogram + polar coords = rose plot
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Axes of evil
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Nonsense bar lengths
1 h ps://[Link]/r/dataisugly/comments/exewcc/thats_quite_a_large_15
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The same applies to stacked bar plots
1 h ps://[Link]/r/dataisugly/comments/d76ixt/lets_make_13_vs_87_market_share_look_like_5050
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Dual axes are misleading
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Better to use multiple panels
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Sensory overload
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Measures of a good visualization
How many interesting insights can your reader get from the plot?
How quickly can they get those insights?
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Chartjunk
Any element of the plot that distracts from the reader ge ing insight
Pictures
Skueomorphism: re ections, shadows, etc.
Extra dimensions
Ostentatious colors or lines
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Pictures
1 h ps://[Link]/junk_charts/2013/09/[Link]
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Skeuomorphism
1 h ps://[Link] [Link]/fox-news/fox-news-newest-dishonest-chart-immigration-enforcement
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Extra dimensions
1 h ps://[Link]/r/dataisugly/comments/dh6yra/an_actual_graph_presented_in_my_psychology
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Ostentatious colors and lines
1h ps://[Link]/r/dataisugly/comments/cyhle4/wikipedias_image_of_the_distribution_of_seats_in 2
h ps://[Link]/y27mRLj
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Histograms: show a distribution
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Box plots: show lots of distributions
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Scatter plots: compare two numeric variables
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Line plots: show trends over time
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Bar plots: show counts by category
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Dot plots: show log scale metrics by category
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Extra dimensions
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3 types of color scale
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Pair plot: compare many variables
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Correlation heatmap: show related variables
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Parallel coordinates plot: find patterns across variables
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Rose plot: show a cyclical distribution
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Dual axes are bad
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Eliminate chartjunk
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Next steps
Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2
Introduction to Tableau
Introduction to Data Visualization with Matplotlib
Introduction to Data Visualization with Seaborn
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