Visualizing trends using line charts
The Line Chart visualization is typically used to show trends, usually trends over time, but any functional relationship will work; infant mortality rate versus GDP per capita, for example. In many ways, the line chart is just what we would have called a graph in science class, plotting y against x and connecting the dots.
We need some new data to create a classic temporal line chart. I pulled some market interest rate data for the Czech Republic, Sweden, and the United Kingdom from the European Commission's Eurostat website. The plots illustrate the banking crisis that hit Sweden in 1992 and the Czech currency crisis of May 1997.
Open the analysis file you've been working on or start a new analysis file, and import the Excel file containing the data (
MoneyMarketInterestRates.xls, which you can download from http://www.insidespotfire.com).Now create a new page in the analysis, and add a Line Chart visualization, using either the Insert menu or the line...
