Graphs / Plots

Data over Time, Patterns

What is it?

Also known as a Time Series Spiral.
This visualisation plots time-based data along an Archimedean spiral. The graph begins at the centre of the spiral and then progresses outwards. Spiral Plots are versatile and can plot bars, lines or points along the spiral path.

Spiral Plots are ideal for showing large data sets, usually to show trends over a large period of time. Therefore, Spiral Plots are great for displaying periodic patterns. Colour can be assigned to each period to break them up and to allow some comparison between each period. So, for example, if we were to show data over a year, we could assign a colour for each month on the graph.

When to use it?

Tools to create the Charts

Code-based:
https://bl.ocks.org/arpitnarechania/027e163073864ef2ac4ceb5c2c0bf616https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41603341/spiral-barplot-using-ggplot-coord-polar-condegram

Webapp:
https://charticulator.com/gallery/fitbit_activities.html

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