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Data visualizations are some of the most powerful tools in a climate science communicator’s playbook. The most famous have ...

Pie charts also do badly when there are lots of categories. For example, this chart from a study on data sources used for COVID data visualisation shows hundreds of categories in one pie.

When you are working with subgrouped data, it can be helpful to accompany a cusum chart for means with a Shewhart s chart for monitoring the variability of the process. This example creates this ...

Example 4.1: Printing a Gantt Chart This example shows how to use the GANTT procedure to obtain a basic line-printer Gantt chart using the default options. The following data describe the precedence ...