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Contents 1 Chart and Plot 2 doughnut charts 3 flip flop charts 4 More Pictures 5 Maps 6 PC3D 7 Matrix chart

[edit] Chart and Plot

It seems to me that a plot is also a chart and the graphical part of plot should be merged into this article. Also to be coordinated: Plotting, [[1]] and [[2]] Sbwoodside 06:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. This is a small stub & should probably be merged to plotting, as there is a lot of overlap. -- Karnesky 15:53, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] doughnut charts

I just discovered a new kind of chart I'd never seen: a doughnut chart [example http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2001/may/17th.html] [example2 http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2000/mar/24fr.html] [example3 http://www.nevron.com/Charting.aspx?nav=ChartGalleryNav&content=ChartDoughnut] [example4 http://ib005.k12.sd.us/Excel%20WebQuest/donut_chart.htm]. It seems to show a time series in a pie chart like format. Sbwoodside 21:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

It can contain multiple series too. ~Sushi 07:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] flip flop charts

Does anyone know what a flip flop chart is? My science teacher told me to construct one, but I don't know what it is and it's not under chart —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.89.154.60 (talk • contribs) .

Maybe your teacher means a flip chart. However, that's more of a presentation aid than a chart in the sense of this article. -- Avenue 12:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Flip chart ≠flip flop chart. Totally different things. HyperSushi21 08:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More Pictures

I'm trying to figure out what type of chart(?)/infographic I'm looking at, and I can't tell without going to every definition and reading about each one individually. I'd like to look at some generic examples, and then select which ones to investigate from there.
~ender 2007-04-25 12:10:PM MST —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.167.217.162 (talk) 19:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Agreed. This is a good article to use the gallery tag in. — Omegatron 01:48, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Contour lines and maps are a form of chart as well. — Omegatron 01:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PC3D

One night while listening to music from the Heart of Space, I got an idea for combining two kinds of graping charts. I called it the PC3D for Pie-Column 3 Dimensional graph. I shared this idea with a friend up in Québec, Canada and he liked it. Does such a thing already exist and if so, is there a program that would utilize it? I have tried to combine such concepts with Excel and Word, but to no avail.

The Column part could represent income or expenditure, while the pie on top of the column could represent what % of sources were coming or going. This system would take a 3D format as columns could be representations of different elements or companies, lined up according to years, next to each other, and even color-coded. The pie charts, again, would be right on top of each column. This would present both an economical way of presenting data as well as more detailed comparison of that data's percentages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by R3hall (talk • contribs) 18:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC) ~R3hall

I haven't seen that particular approach used. Pie and bar charts are more commonly combined to drill down within a particular category, e.g. Excel's bar of pie charts.[3] Maybe I'm not understanding it properly, but a stacked bar chart[4] seems to convey the same information as your idea, and is even more economical. -- Avenue (talk) 21:48, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Just imagine a column. Now imagine that you are going to peer down, bird's eye view, on top of that column. You see a pie chart right on it. Again, Image a set of columns, each with a different color (representing party/year) and height (amount). Then right on top of each is a pie showing what percentage make up those amounts. Does this help? ~R3hall

I think I've seen such visualization in one of the blogs of "junk charts" that I used to follow, but I can't find it. I believe that it has been used for showing mutual fund return & asset allocation at the same time & possibly been used in other popular media. The verdict on the blog was that it wasn't very usable. Pie charts, in general, aren't usually the best vehicle for conveying percentages (since we're not so good at judging the size of the pieces). --Karnesky (talk) 18:44, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Matrix chart

What about Matrix charts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.150.148 (talk) 11:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)