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The differents graph typeThere's a lot of graphs types :
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Line graphsA line graph is often used to describe the behavior of a value during a period of time. You can use it for technical analysis or to compare different devices. Adding line graph into a report is always a good idea. And of course, webmasters have a lot of reasons to use it in their websites. You can add as many series as you want, configure title, serie name, labels... Check the line graphs samples to see what's exactly line graph is. If you want to create this king of charts, simply go here. |
Bar graphsBar graph is often used to prints periodic values. When a value has no correlation with the previous, you should prefer using bar instead of line chart. Bar chart is usually a better option when you want to describe quantity grouped by period of time. Analysing traffic of a website is usually presented by days or months. Stacked bar chart, column bar chart are a kind of bar chart. Check the bar graphs samples to see what's exactly bar chart is. If you want to create a bar chart online simply goes here. |
Pie chartsPie charts is a chart where each serie shares a portion of a global available data. You should use this chart to show how is done the repartition between some actors. A nice sample is the repartition between browser market share (Mozilla, IE, safari ...). There's no notion of time, simply a snapshot at a given date. Donut chart is a kind of pie chart. Check the pie charts samples to see what's exactly pie chart is. If you want to create a pie chart online simply goes here. |
Live graphssLive graph is the real time chart. This chart is the best option if you want to represents a dynamic value. Use this chart if you want to show that the data are always changing. The general idea is to have a graph which simply prints the data as they are received. With the live chart builder of plotvar.com, you can use a source file (located somewhere on the web) which contains an integer value updated often (1 second or less is the best choice). Or you can give a bunch of values and the live graph will loop with these values. Check the live graphs samples to see what's exactly live chart is. If you want to create a live chart online simply goes here. |
Scatter plot graphsScatter plot chart is close to line chart. It could be used to print a values depending the time, but without any correlation between values. Check the highcharts scatter demo to see what's exactly scatter plot is. Currently we don't provide online graph maker page for this kind of graphs. |
Spider webSpider web is a chart based on a single ownership usually The well know utilisation is the skills spider web chart. Wind rose and polar charts are close to spider web chart. Check the highcharts spider web demo to see what's exactly spider web is. Currently we don't provide online graph maker page for this kind of graphs. |
Angular gaugeAngular gauge is like you have on a car to mesure speed. This is not really a chart, but could be used to print the current value. Check the highcharts angular gauge demo to see what's exactly angular gauge is. Currently we don't provide online graph naker page for this kind of graphs. |