Introducing 4 new chart types in Infogram

These last months of 2021 have been pretty busy for our team. But totally worth it!

We’re happy to share with you four new chart types: radar/spider chart, population pyramid, tornado chart, and a slope graph. Read on to learn all about these chart types and when to use them.

Radar chart

One of our newest additions to the Infogram’s chart library is the radar chart a.k.a. spider, web, or polar chart.

A radar chart is a two-dimensional chart type that’s perfect for comparing the quantitative values of multiple variables. Each variable has its axis connected to the others in the center of the radar chart. Take a look at an example radar chart below. Makes sense they’re sometimes referred to as spider charts, doesn’t it? 

Radar charts make it easy to compare and contrast multiple parties across a variety of variables.

Radar charts can help you compare different products, concepts, skill sets, and more. You can use them for market analysis, decision making, and as an excellent way to visualize performance.

Population pyramid

The population pyramid is a type of bar chart that’s used to display the distribution of a population by age groups and sex. If the tendency is positive and growing (meaning there are more newborns than people dying), the graph looks like a triangle. Now it’s obvious why it’s called a pyramid.

Apart from showing the demographic situation as it is, population pyramids are useful for forecasting the future and investigating the effects of historical events. You can also use population pyramids for marketing or sales purposes. For example, to analyze your audience and build a strategy based on the demographic data. 

Tornado chart

Another type of chart from our newest release is the tornado chart. You can use tornado to visualize sensitivity analysis data that demonstrates the relationship between values and a given output. Thanks to the ability to change chart base value, you can use tornado charts in risk assessment to analyze the benefits and negative impacts of different scenarios.

In tornado charts, values are sorted so that the largest bar (sum of both values) appears at the top of the chart and the smallest one at the bottom. That’s why it’s so useful in visualizing correlations and making decisions.

However, the Infogram editor allows you to sort the values as you wish. This means that you can change the default setting and arrange your chart by any value. To better understand this, let’s take a look at the example.

As you can see, this tornado chart is sorted as it should by default – SEO brought the majority of registrations and pageviews put together, that’s why it’s at the top of the tornado. Nevertheless, if you’re focusing on the number of registrations (green values), you can change the order of the data. That way, you’ll bring social network posts at the top of your chart and arrange the rest of the data accordingly.

Slope chart

A slope chart is a line chart type that compares two different values of a variable. You can think of a slope chart as a simplified version of the line graph. Slope doesn’t show details of value development, just the starting and ending points.

Slope charts are great for highlighting “before and after” stories, showing changes over a time period, or simplifying a line chart that has way too many variables and lines.

With that being said, you’re very welcome to try these charts out! Population pyramid, radar, tornado, and slope charts are just a few of all the graphs we have for you.

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