Friday, April 6, 2018

Visualizing Change with Jump Plot

The latest #MakeoverMonday 2018 Week14 project is about world wine production. One of our Makeover Monday Data Camp members Yanning Wang created a simple dashboard for this week. I think that jump plot can make this dashboard a bit more interesting. So, here is the result.

It seems a great use case for the jump plot to visualize  YOY change. The amplitude of the jump is representing the scale of the change. The direction of the jump equals up or down. And jump plot is best used to visualize the difference between consecutive check points

YOY change is what happened between two consecutive years. So the check points are the years. Note that the jump plot is based on the Sine function. You can use other math functions to create jump plots if you wish.
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3 comments:

  1. ChatlinauJuly 30, 2018 at 3:03 PM

    Alex, thanks for putting this up. I stumbled on this looking for something else, but thought that the jump plot would be a good way to show YY% change over years. I downloaded the workbook but can't replicate the jump plot and can't get my data to work. Would you be willing to help figure out what I'm doing wrong?

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