the charts module
Chart Gallery, Every Type Live
57 chart types, each one drawn here by the grid itself rather than shown as a picture of it. Scroll down and a tile draws as it comes into view; open any of them to see it full size, on its own page, with the code that made it.
Bars & columns
A measure by category, ranked, split or run down to zero.
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Bar
Comparing a measure across a handful of categories.
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Horizontal bar
The same comparison, when the category labels run long.
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Waterfall
A running total, built up or drawn down step by step.
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Pareto
Which categories make up most of the total, with a cumulative line.
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Combo
Two measures on very different scales, read side by side.
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Dumbbell
A before-and-after value for each category, and the gap between them.
Lines & areas
A measure over a continuous axis, and how it compares or spreads.
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Line
A measure moving over a continuous axis.
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Step
A value that holds until it changes, rather than drifting between readings.
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Area
A line with its own weight against the axis made visible.
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Range area
A band between a low and a high reading, not a single line.
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Scatter
Whether two measures move together, point by point.
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Bubble
The same relationship, with a third measure sized in.
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Bump
Rank changing hands between categories over time.
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Slope
One measure at two points, and who moved most between them.
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Fan
A forecast that shows its own uncertainty, not just a single line.
Part-to-whole
How a total splits, flat or nested.
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Pie
How a total splits across a few categories.
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Donut
The same split, with the centre free for a total or a label.
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Treemap
A split where the shares are too lopsided for a slice to read.
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Sunburst
A split with a second level nested inside the first.
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Waffle
A share of a total, read as a count of squares rather than an angle.
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Icicle
A nested split read left to right instead of ring by ring.
Distribution
The shape and spread of one column, not just its total.
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Histogram
How one column’s values are spread across its range.
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Box plot
The median, the middle half and the outliers of a column, at a glance.
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Violin
A distribution’s full shape, compared across categories.
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ECDF
What share of rows sits under a value, with no binning choice to argue about.
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Lorenz curve
How concentrated a total is among the rows that hold it.
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Ridgeline
Several distributions stacked so their shapes compare directly.
Correlation & statistics
How columns relate, and whether a process or a score holds up.
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Correlogram
How every numeric column relates to every other, in one matrix.
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Q-Q plot
Whether a column follows a normal distribution.
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SPLOM
Every pair of numeric columns plotted against each other at once.
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Hexbin
A scatter with too many points to read as individual dots.
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ROC
How well a score separates a rare outcome from the rest.
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Control chart
A process drifting from its own normal, apart from any external spec.
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Diverging
A change that runs both positive and negative across categories.
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Moving range
How much a reading moves from the one before it, the companion to a control chart.
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Capability
A process's spread against its tolerance, not just against its own history.
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Forest
A regression coefficient, its estimate and its confidence interval, one row per predictor.
Flow & hierarchy
How volume moves between categories, or nests inside them.
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Sankey
How volume moves from one category into another.
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Chord
Flow between categories in both directions, arranged in a ring.
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Network
Connections between named things, positioned the way you draw them.
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Alluvial
How rows move between two categories, sized by a measure.
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Arc
Which categories connect to which, along a single line of nodes.
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Parallel
Where one row sits across several numeric columns at once.
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Decomposition
A series pulled apart into its trend, its season and what is left over.
Time & schedule
A plan, a price or a mix, read against the calendar.
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Gantt
A plan of activities with a start and an end, laid out on a timeline.
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Calendar
A daily figure read the way a calendar reads, week by week.
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Candlestick
A daily open, high, low and close, in the form traders read.
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Stream
How a mix of categories shifts, as a smooth flowing band.
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Marimekko
Two dimensions of size compared at once, width and height both meaning something.
Maps
A value at a place, by code or by coordinate.
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Geomap
A value against a place, read from an ISO country code.
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Bubblemap
A value at a coordinate, sized by how large it is.
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Markermap
A value at a coordinate, coloured rather than sized.
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Hexmap
Points laid onto a hex grid instead of raw coordinates.
Specialist
The shape a particular question is built for.
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Radar
Several measures for one category, read as a shape.
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Gauge
One figure read against a target.
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Funnel
A count that narrows through a set of stages.
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Heatmap
A measure at the crossing of two categories, read as colour.
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