Data Visualization

This is the Museum of Data Visualization. It should become something like an interlinked gallery of data visualization based on first principles. It is work in progress.

You can already explore classes of charts, classes of data transformations and classes of datasets.

Charts

Tree map Node-link diagram Parallel coordinates Heat map Area chart Sankey diagram Scatter Plot Hexbin Plot Bar chart Line chart Rug plot Violin plot Icicle plot Pie chart Arc diagram Adjacency matrix Radar chart Mosaic plot Donut chart Histogram Box plot Tree node-link diagram Contour plot Sparkline Lollipop chart Bubble Plot KDE plot Scatter plot matrix

• Temporal heat map
• Chord diagram
• Scree plot
• Package diagram
• Daytime heat map
• Venn diagram
• Euler diagram
• Streamgraph
• Alluvial diagram
• Chernoff faces
• Choropleth map
• Word cloud
• Ternary plot
• Cartogram
• Stem-and-leaf plot
• Progress bar
• Voronoi tree map
• Circular tree map
• Sunburst chart

Dataset types

• Tree data
• Graph data
• Time series data
• Univariate time series data
• Directed graph
• Tabular data

Data transformations

• Layered graph layout
• Reingold-Tilford algorithm
• Kernel density estimation
• Force-directed graph layout
• Treemap tiling algorithm
• Edge bundling
• Graph layout techniques
• Time series pivoting
• Pivoting around the hour of day
• Slice-and-dice tiling
• Squarified tiling
• Strip treemap tiling
• Sugiyama method

Notable persons

• Alfred Inselberg
• Ben Shneiderman
• Florence Nightingale
• Leland Wilkinson
• Charles Joseph Minard
• William Playfair
• Jacques Bertin