Choosing a Graph Type in ADF-Enabled Web Pages

The following table suggests graph types for different aspects of data that you want to emphasize in a graph.

Aspect of Data	Example	Graph Types
The difference between items over time or at the same point in time	Which products are selling best in which stores?	Clustered bar or 3-D bar
Trends over time	Is our market share increasing or decreasing?	Absolute line or Stacked area
Cyclical trends over time	Have the sales of this product peaked in March consistently over the past three years?	Radar graph
Rate of data change	How fast is our market share increasing?	Absolute line or Stacked area
Percentage or changes in percentage	How much of our revenue comes from each product line? Is our big seller bringing in the same percentage of revenue as it did last year at this time?	Pie or Percentage bar, line, or area
Relationship of parts to the whole	Which products' sales are most closely related to our total sales? Which products' sales follow the trend of the total sales? Which ones do not?	Pie, Percentage bar or line, or Stacked bar, line, or area graph.
Relationship of parts to the whole, with more detail for one of the parts	Which product line accounts for the highest percentage of sales? Within that product line, which districts make up the most sales?	Pie-bar
Changes in all parts of a whole	Do the products that bring the most revenue to the entire company bring in the most revenue for each district?	Multiple pie or Stacked bar, line, or area
Relationships between two variables	Do sales increase when we spend more on marketing?	Scatter or Polar
Relationships between three variables	Do sales and profits increase proportionally when we spend more on marketing?	Bubble
Location of defects in a system	Where are the highest percentage of defects occurring?	Pareto