Line Plot This plot draws a line that represents the revolution of continuous or categorical data. It is a popular and known type of chart, and it’s super easy to produce.

So in June, our interactive editor Tasneem Raja asked me to dig into Google’s Chart Tools API. Two nice things about this approach: first, our reporters and editors already know and love Google ...

Choose the desired chart type from the available options, such as bar, pie, or plot (scatter or line) charts. Customize your graph by tailoring the axes, colors, labels, and other elements to ...

The visualization on the right shows the static chart while the left chart is interactive and more detailed and all this without any major change in the syntax. Click here for more examples.

This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to ...

An X-Y scatter chart is an ideal plot choice when you have data sets with at least two interesting variables per record, and because scatter plots are a native graph option in Excel, you simply ...

Charts can mislead, misinform, and cause panic. Here’s how to become conversant in the language of data visualization—and better understand the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in the middle of an ...