Exercise 1: Pick the appropriate charts

Given the charts in the Tour de France site, what do you feel is a safe graphicacy level to apply to the audience and why. What chart types might you want to use in a dashboard designed for this audience?

External Resource

If you need help thinking through chart options, you can refer to the Graphic Continuum, courtesy by https://en.rockcontent.com/.

Solution

The Graphic Continuum

You can go to Graphic Continuum and explore the different types of graphs that could fit best.

• Which graph-types can you consider to use? - You can consider using graph-types such as Lines, Scatterplot, Hive, Chord, Columns (bars), Column with points, Box plots, Violin plot, or anything that doesn't go higher than the medium graphicacy level. There are many more graph-types that you can use.
• Which graph-types shouldn't you consider to use? - You should not use Word trees, Mosaic plot, Tree plots, Marimekko plots, or Bullet chart.

This might not be the best chart story to tell, but I created the following dashboard: https://public.tableau.com/profile/robert.crocker#!/vizhome/MMWeek28/LeTour using the same data. I used a connected scatter plot (here) to show that -- roughly speaking -- speed decreases and the distance increases.