Choosing the right chart

The chart type encodes your claim. Comparison, distribution, composition, and relationship each have a form that reads instantly and several that mislead.

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Overview

What this lesson covers

Match the chart form to the question being asked
Remove decoration that competes with the data
Avoid axis choices that overstate a difference

This lesson sits in Visualising Data, part of Python for Data Work. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.

In this lesson you will:

Match the chart form to the question being asked
Remove decoration that competes with the data
Avoid axis choices that overstate a difference

Resources

pandas documentationThe official reference for the tools used in this lesson.