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Small multiples

Let's not mix these polarized voters as the medians run away from one another
Area chart

Let's not mix these polarized voters as the medians run away from one another

In-depth look at Washington Post's fantastic feature on median U.S. voters
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Another simple Excel chart needs help
Axis

Another simple Excel chart needs help

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and Junk Charts, takes apart an Elon Musk chart, created using some Excel defaults.
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Visualizing citation impact
Comparability

Visualizing citation impact

Michael Bales and his associates at Cornell are working on a new
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Depicting imbalance, straying from the standard chart
Aggregation

Depicting imbalance, straying from the standard chart

My friend Tonny M. sent me a tip to two pretty nice
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Dot plots are under-valued, that's all
Bar chart

Dot plots are under-valued, that's all

Bar charts are over-used and over-rated. Just casually, I found
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Where a scatter plot fails
Bumps chart

Where a scatter plot fails

Found this chart in the magazine that Charles Schwab sends to customers:
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