The Displaying Labeled Quantitative Data

Abstract

The information world is full of labeled quantitative data, in which a number of qualitative cat-egories are to be compared based on a quantitative variable. Their graphical representations arevarious and serve different audiences and purposes. Based on a simple data set and its different vi-sualizations, we will play with the data and their visual representation. We will use well-known charts,such as a regular table, a bar plot, and a word cloud; less-know, such as Cleveland’s dot plot, a fanplot, and a text-table; and new ones, constructed for the very aim of this essay, such as a labeledrectangle plot and a ruler-like graph. Our discussion will not aim to choose the best graph but ratherto show the different faces of visualizing labeled quantitative data. I hope to convince the readers thatit is always worth spending a minute on pondering how to present their data.