EH 315: Professional Writing and Data Visualization

Bar chart

• Excel
• Canva
• Infogram

Cause and effect chart

• Excel (relationship SmartArt)
• Canva (fishbone diagram)

Map

• Excel
• Infogram

Iceberg chart

• Vizzlo

Line graph

• Excel
• Infogram

Pie chart

• Excel
• Canva
• Infogram

Stacked area graph

• Excel
• Infogram

Venn diagram

• Canva (3-circle, 4-circle, and 5-circle)

Excel

You have Excel through UAB.

Available chart types:

• Area
• Bar
• Box & Whisker
• Bubble chart
• Column
• Combo
• Funnel
• Histogram
• Line
• Map
• Pie & Doughnut
• Radar
• Stock
• Sunburst
• Surface
• Treemap
• Waterfall
• XY scatter

Infogram requires a free account, but it is easy to use. Not all features are available in the free account.

Chart types:

• Area chart
• Bar graphs
• Bubble chart
• Candlestick chart
• Column chart
• Dual axis chart (line and column)
• Funnel chart
• Gantt chart
• Line chart
• Pictorial chart
• Pie chart
• Pyramid chart
• Radial chart
• Scatter chart
• Treemap
• Waterfall chart
• Word cloud

Canva is also easy to use but will require a free account. Not all features are available in the free account.

Chart / Graph Types:

• Balanced scorecard
• Bar
• Bubble map
• Comparison chart
• Concept map
• Cycle diagram
• Decision tree
• Donut chart
• EcoMap
• Fishbone diagram
• Flowchart
• Gantt chart
• Line graph
• Mind map
• Organization
• Pie
• Process Flow
• Site map
• Strategy map
• SWOT analysis
• T-chart
• Venn diagram
• Work breakdown structure