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Crash Visualization
  • Welcome
  • Preface
    • Who the book is written for
    • How the book is organized
  • 1. Introduction of Data Visualization
    • 1.1 What is data visualization?
    • 1.2 Why does visualization matter?
  • 2. Tricks in Visualization
    • 2.1 Choose Appropriate Chart
    • 2.2 Features of Charts
      • 2.2.1 Table
      • 2.2.2 Column Chart
      • 2.2.3 Line Chart
      • 2.2.4 Pie Chart
      • 2.2.5 Scatter Chart
      • 2.2.6 Map Chart
    • 2.3 Misused Graph
    • 2.4 Tips in Visualization
  • 3. Matplotlib
    • 3.1 Basic Concepts
    • 3.2 Line Chart
    • 3.3 Area Chart
    • 3.4 Column Chart
    • 3.5 Histogram Chart
    • 3.6 Scatter Chart
    • 3.7 Lollipop Chart
    • 3.8 Pie Chart
    • 3.9 Venn Chart
    • 3.10 Waffle Chart
    • 3.11 Animation
  • 4. Seaborn
    • 4.1 Trends
    • 4.2 Ranking
      • 4.2.1 Barplot
      • 4.2.2 Boxplot
    • 4.3 Composition
      • 4.3.1 Stacked Chart
    • 4.4 Correlation
      • 4.4.1 Scatter Plot
      • 4.4.2 Linear Relationship
      • 4.4.3 Heatmap
      • 4.4.4 Pairplot
    • 4.5 Distribution
      • 4.5.1 Boxplot
      • 4.5.2 Violin plot
      • 4.5.3 Histogram plot
      • 4.5.4 Density plot
      • 4.5.5 Joint plot
  • 5. Bokeh
    • 5.1 Basic Plotting
    • 5.2 Data Sources
    • 5.3 Annotations
    • 5.4 Categorical Data
    • 5.5 Presentation and Layouts
    • 5.6 Linking and Interactions
    • 5.7 Network Graph
    • 5.8 Widgets
  • 6. Plotly
    • 6.1 Fundamental Concepts
      • 6.1.1 Plotly Express
      • 6.1.2 Plotly Graph Objects
    • 6.2 Advanced Charts
      • 6.2.1 Advanced Scatter Chart
      • 6.2.2 Advanced Bar Chart
      • 6.2.3 Advanced Pie Chart
      • 6.2.4 Advanced Heatmap
      • 6.2.5 Sankey Chart
      • 6.2.6 Tables
    • 6.3 Statistical Charts
      • 6.3.1 Common Statistical Charts
      • 6.3.2 Dendrograms
      • 6.3.3 Radar Chart
      • 6.3.4 Polar Chart
      • 6.3.5 Streamline Chart
    • 6.4 Financial Charts
      • 6.4.1 Funnel Chart
      • 6.4.2 Candlestick Chart
      • 6.4.3 Waterfall Chart
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  1. 2. Tricks in Visualization
  2. 2.2 Features of Charts

2.2.2 Column Chart

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Column Chart

This chart is best used to compare different values when specific values are important, and it is expected that users will look up and compare individual values between each column. With a column chart, you could compare values for different categories or compare value changes over a period of time for a single category.

Use column chart when:

  • For comparison, if the number of categories is quite small — up to seven categories.

  • In charts, always set time dimension on the horizontal axis, from left to right.

  • For column charts, the numerical axis must start at zero.

  • Only use column charts to show trends if there are a reasonably-low number of data points

Histogram Column Chart

Histogram is a common variation of column charts used to present the distribution and relationships of a single variable over a set of categories.

Stacked Column Chart

Stacked column charts are to show a composition. Do not use too many composition items ( up to 4 ) and make sure the composing parts are relatively similar in size. It can get messy very quickly.

Here is a very messy example.

Column Chart
Bar Chart and Histogram Chart
Stacked column chart: This is a very messy example!