<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The information world is full of labeled quantitative data, in which a number of qualitative categories are to be compared based on a quantitative variable. Their graphical representations are various and serve different audiences and purposes. Based on a simple data set and its different visualizations, we will play with the data and their visual representation. We will use well-known charts, such as a regular table, a bar plot, and a word cloud; less-know, such as Cleveland’s dot plot, a fan plot, and a text-table; and new ones, constructed for the very aim of this essay, such as a labeled rectangle plot and a ruler-like graph. Our discussion will not aim to choose the best graph but rather to show the different faces of visualizing labeled quantitative data. I hope to convince the readers that it is always worth spending a minute on pondering how to present their data.</p></abstract>

The information world is full of labeled quantitative data, in which a number of qualitative categories are to be compared based on a quantitative variable. Their graphical representations are various and serve different audiences and purposes. Based on a simple data set and its different visualizations, we will play with the data and their visual representation. We will use well-known charts, such as a regular table, a bar plot, and a word cloud; less-know, such as Cleveland’s dot plot, a fan plot, and a text-table; and new ones, constructed for the very aim of this essay, such as a labeled rectangle plot and a ruler-like graph. Our discussion will not aim to choose the best graph but rather to show the different faces of visualizing labeled quantitative data. I hope to convince the readers that it is always worth spending a minute on pondering how to present their data.

Displaying Labeled Quantitative Data

University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow

Social Communication

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The information world is full of labeled quantitative data, in which a number of qualitative categories are to be compared based on a quantitative variable....

Displaying Labeled Quantitative Data

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 11 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sc-2019-0005

Keywords
visualization, bar plot, labeled rectangle plot, ruler-like graph

© 2019 Marcin Kozak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Displaying Labeled Quantitative Data

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 11 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sc-2019-0005

Keywordsvisualization, bar plot, labeled rectangle plot, ruler-like graph

© 2019 Marcin Kozak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
visualization, bar plot, labeled rectangle plot, ruler-like graph