Choosing a visualization type for karate

Analyze a text

See a branching view of how a word or phrase is used in a text. Navigate the text by zooming and clicking.

How are you using your words? This enhanced tag cloud will show you the words popularity in the given set of text.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Compare a set of values

This versatile chart lets you get a quick sense of how a single set of data is distributed. Each item in the data is an individually identifiable block.

Have so many items that your bar chart is baffling? Do the values vary so much that one bar pushes to the top of the screen while another virtually disappears? Try our bubble chart, which displays values as circles of different sizes.

How do the items in your data set stack up? A bar chart is a simple and recognizable way to compare values. You can display several sets of bars for multivariate comparisons.

See relationships among data points

Point one variable across the x-axis, the other up the y-axis. The size of a dot can represent a third variable. The classic scatterplot gives you a bird's eye view of how your factors relate to each other.

A grid-based view of multidimensional data.

Is your data all about relationships? Take a set of links -- say flight departure and arrival points or romantic pairings -- and see the connections laid out as a network.

See the parts of a whole

Want to map a comparison of now vs. then? City vs. highway? Decaf vs. regular? This version of the treemap lets you directly compare two different takes on a set of categorized items.

The pie chart's big brother. Treemaps divide up a rectangle into hierarchical categories, letting you see relationships among large numbers of components. This lets you get an overview of a complex whole -- and drill down.

Each component is a slice of the big pie. A simple and popular classic.

See the world

Country Map... Shade the states, regions, or territories of an individual country based on data values. We currently support the following 14 countries:

Australia	Brazil	Canada	China
France	Germany	Iraq	Ireland
Italy	Japan	Netherlands	Russia
UK	USA

This is a map of all counties in the United States

This is a world map.

Track rises and falls over time

Track the changing values of items that add together to make a whole, like the components of a budget or the sales figures of multiple divisions. Also known as an "area chart."

This version of the stacked graph is designed for items arranged into a set of categories and subcategories.

Put the value you're measuring on the y-axis and draw lines to watch items change over time. (Think stock prices.)