FIFA Players 2022 • Stacked Relative Area chart • FiveThirtyEight theme
Area Charts behave a lot like line charts and bar charts combined. While at first glance
they can feel quite similar to a curved line chart, they are better suited to show
differences between distributions of data rather than trend evolution.For example, in this dataset, we have a list of transactions that can either be
Income or Expenses.Making an area chart gives a visual perspective of what the net benefit (income - expenses) is,
by visually subtracting the blue area to the orange one. Check it out live here.
In Graphext, you have 4 subtypes of line charts to choose from:
Staked Relative area charts normalize all their values to add up to 1. This fills the
whole Y scale, and tells you the percentage each X value occupies out of the total.This example is the same one as above but now stretched to fill
the whole 100% range. Now we can appreciate how much each season contributes to the
overall yearly temperature in relative terms.
Segmented area charts behave in much the same way as Segmented Line charts do.
You get a different plot for each category displayed.This example is the same as the one in the beginning, but separating each Wage
bracket into its own little plot.