Prompt 5 of 7
Name a type of graph or chart
79 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Isotype chart— Otto Neurath's 1920s Vienna system that told statistics through repeated icons.
- Nightingale rose chart— Florence Nightingale used it to prove sanitation, not battle, killed soldiers.
85 ptsDeep Cut39 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Bode plot
- Bullet graph— Designed by Stephen Few in 2005 to replace cluttered dashboard gauges.
- Bump chart
- Cartogram
- Chernoff faces— Cartoon faces whose eyebrows and noses encode the data.
- Chord diagram
- Combo chart
- Contour plot
- Control chart
- Dendrogram
- Density plot
- Dumbbell chart
- Eye chart— Snellen's letter pyramid squeaks in; it is literally called a chart.
- Forest plot
- Frequency polygon
- Hexbin plot
- Kagi chart
- Lollipop chart
- Lorenz curve
- Marimekko chart— Finnish textile prints inspired both the look and the name.
- Mosaic plot
- Ogive
- OHLC chart
- Parallel coordinates plot
- Point and figure chart
- QQ plot
- Renko chart
- Ridgeline plot— Nicknamed after Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures cover, itself real pulsar data.
- Slope chart— Edward Tufte pushed it for showing change between two points.
- Smith chart
- Sparkline
- Step chart
- Streamgraph— A 2008 New York Times box-office chart made it famous.
- Sunburst chart
- Surface plot
- Ternary plot
- Treemap
- Waffle chart
- Wind rose
60 ptsRare23 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Bell curve
- Box plot
- Bubble chart
- Candlestick chart— Rice traders in 1700s Osaka were drawing these before Wall Street existed.
- Choropleth map— Greek for 'area' times 'multitude': regions shaded by a value.
- Dot plot
- Funnel chart
- Gantt chart— Popularized around 1910 by engineer Henry Gantt, who never patented it.
- Gauge chart
- Growth chart
- Network graph
- Organizational chart
- Pareto chart
- Pedigree chart
- PERT chart
- Population pyramid
- Radar chart
- Sankey diagram— Named for a 19th-century Irish captain who charted steam-engine energy waste.
- Stacked bar chart
- Stem-and-leaf plot
- Timeline
- Tree diagram
- Violin plot— A box plot with the full distribution's shape mirrored on both sides.
30 ptsSchooler10 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Area chart
- Doughnut chart
- Flowchart
- Heat map
- Histogram
- Mind map
- Pictograph
- Scatter plot
- Tally chart
- Venn diagram
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Waterfall chart— Consultants' favorite staircase for walking a total up and down.
- Word cloud— Bigger words just mean more mentions, whatever the slide implies.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Bar chart
- Line graph
- Pie chart