Line charts for time series
A line chart will emphasise the overall pattern of the data and highlight trends. Use them when you have lots of data points or just a few. Multiple times series should always use line charts.
Table of contents
- Choosing the correct chart
- Choice of data
- Comparing data sets – shared horizons
- Comparisons of magnitude (size)
- Time series
- Bar charts for time series
- Line charts for time series
- Dot plot with line for time series
- Multiple time series
- Small changes over time, not starting the y-axis at zero
- Ranking
- Part-to-whole
- Deviation
- Distribution
- Correlation
