Tech n' Cars: A bubble chart with 5 Y-axes and 6 X-axes! Blogger Widgets

August 15, 2011

A bubble chart with 5 Y-axes and 6 X-axes!

Horace Dedin is the author of the blog Asymco.com. He is extremely talented at making data visualizations. He recently faced a seemingly unavoidable problem; if he wanted to record data about more than 2 things on one graph, he will have to use multiple graphs. So, he made an amazing Flash-based bubble chart with 5 Y-axes, 6 X-axes, 7 colors and 6 size options. This allows him to put data about price, profit, volume, revenue, operating margin, and more all on one graph. He uses this program to graph mobile phone vendors. One for Apple is on the left, and here's one representing Nokia shrinking:


You can play around with these amazing graphs here.