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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

2.2.3 Line Chart

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Line Chart

Line charts are among the most frequently used chart types. Use lines when you have a continuous data set. These are best suited for trend-based visualizations of data over a period of time when the number of data points is very high (more than 20).

With line charts, the emphasis is on the continuation of the flow of the values (a trend). The most common use of a line chart could be :

  • stock market price changes over time

  • website traffic period over period

  • sales performance for the previous month or quarter.

Area Chart

An area chart is essentially a line chart — good for trends and some comparisons. Area charts will fill up the area below the line, so the best use for this type of chart is for presenting accumulative value changes over time, like item stock, number of employees, or a savings account.

Line chart
Area chart