Which chart should I use?

The University of Oxford is a partner of the OxShef: Charts initiative which seeks, amongst other things, to answer the question "which chart should I use"?

These resources are developed openly and collaboratively on GitHub, to reduce confusion we deliberately do not duplicate any materials in this website - please visit OxShef: Charts instead.

If you're a researcher at University of Oxford and would like advice or support in selecting chart types please do contact us at researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk

Once the question of "which chart should I use?" has been answered, the next choice to make is which tools can be used to create that chart?

The OxShef: Tools initiative seeks to create an open and collaboratively managed catalogue of data visualisation tools that support a reproducible dataviz workflow. 

The University of Oxford provides visualisation hosting via the IDN for 

If you're a researcher at University of Oxford and would like advice or support in selecting chart types please do contact us at researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk