Tag: bar plot

A fellow data analyst asked a question? What do we do when we need to draw a stacked bar chart that has too many colors? How do we select the...

Slope charts are often suggested as a valid alternative to clustered bar charts, especially for “before and after” cases. So, instead of a clustered bar char like this we tend...

A radar chart (sometimes called “spider charts”) look cool but are, in fact, pretty lame. So much so that when the data visualization author Stephen Few mentioned them in his...

A data giraffe is a situation where a very prominent data point shades everything else. I learned this term from a post by Pini Yakuel and immediately liked it a...

Dr. Richard Brath is a data visualization expert who also blogs from time to time. Each post in Richard’s blog provides a deep, and often unexpected to me, insight into...

My colleague, Chares Earl, pointed me to this interesting 2010 post that explores different ways to visualize categories of drastically different sizes. The post author, Tom Hopper, experiments with different...

In the data visualization world, not starting a bar chart at zero is a “BIG NO”. Some people protest. “How come can anyone tell me how to start my bar...

Seaborn is a Python visualization library based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics. Look at this example from the seaborn documentation site >>> import...