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Glossary: Data Visualization

Five kinds of question

Also written: comparison, trend, relationship, part-to-whole

Almost every business question is a comparison, trend, distribution, relationship or part-to-whole question, and each has a best-fit chart: sorted bars, line, histogram or box/violin, scatter, stacked bar.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

Bar chartTime seriesDistributionScatter plotPie chart