Chapter 9 EDAV Flowchart

Yufeng Ma and Bing Xu

This cheatsheet offers a general guideline of EDAV by purpose.

EDAV flowchart cheatsheet

How should we get started with EDAV? We generated a flowchart that helps with finding the right graphs for certain purposes and data types. We divided into 7 major purposes of data visualization.

Distribution

When we want to show the distribution.

Correlation

When we are looking for possible corraltion among variables

Comparison

When we want to compare samples.

Patterns

When we are looking for patterns among variables or samples, for example, missing patterns.

Statistical Values (ex. Median, Range)

When we want to display straightforwardly with statistical values or properties of the data, such as range and median.

Survey Data (Likert Scale)

When we want to visualize a survey data that uses Likert scale.