Commons:Chart and graph resources

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Charts and graphs are great for simplifying info, showing trends over time, illustrating patterns, and so on. The Commons encourages people to find and create more of them. Upload them to the Commons, and then put them in the relevant categories. See Category help, and feel free to use category search to find the best categories.

To find categorized charts and graphs please see:

See also categories: Drawings, Diagrams, Maps, Plots, and Statistics
Diagram categories. Some images to move to chart, graph categories:  


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[edit] Convert charts and graphs to wiki code or image files

[edit] Where to ask for help

[edit] SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

[edit] Create timelines

[edit] EasyTimeline

[edit] WikiTimeline

[edit] Resource categories

[edit] Software

[edit] Guidelines for creating better charts and graphs

  • Bar Graphs [1], Statistics: Power from Data!, Statistics Canada.
  • EIA Guidelines for Statistical Graphs [2].
  • How to Construct Bad Charts and Graphs [3].
  • Avoid chartjunk.

[edit] Tutorials

[edit] Galleries for various types of charts and graphs

  • Charts and graphs - links to Commons galleries with many types of charts and graphs.

[edit] More external links

  • Chartle.net [5]. Free, user-friendly online tool to create static or interactive online charts, plots, maps and diagrams in various formats: PNG, SVG, Flash. From CHARTle.net - Frequently Asked Quaestions: "Images created by the Chartle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. This tool is optimal to create static or interactive charts, maps, plots and diagrams for publishing in Wikipedia."
  • Open Directory - Science: Math: Software: Graphing [6].
  • Swivel.com [7]. Users can freely create and store graphs and charts online. Search what others have created. All can be uploaded to the commons under the Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 2.5 or 3.0 Generic licenses [8] [9]. See which one to use by clicking the "OK to share with attribution" links on the individual chart/graph pages. See also the Swivel.com Terms of Use linked from here: [10]. The CC license templates to use on the commons are {{cc-by-2.5}} or {{cc-by-3.0}} - For more info:
- Commons:Copyright tags#Free Creative Commons licenses.
  • Zoho DB and Reports [11] is the name of the free [12] online database and reporting application in the Zoho Office Suite. It can also "create charts, pivots, summary and other wide-range of reports through powerful drag & drop interface". There are some samples of reports, graphs, charts, and tables here: [13]
  • NCES Create A Graph [14]. Free online graph creation tool at the NCES website. Bar charts, line charts, area charts, pie charts, and XY graphs. Choice of PDF, PNG, JPG, EMF, EPS, and SVG output. Note: Use short labels for all except the graph title. Otherwise, part of the labels may not show up, or the chart may not be created at all. The SVG files are downloaded as gzipped files. They must be unzipped before uploading to the commons. Find a decompression tool at en:Comparison of file archivers. For example: 7-Zip, a popular [15], free and open-source file archiver that unzips gzip and also works with Unicode.
  • OnlineCharttool.com [16]. Free online chart builder tool. Bar charts, line charts, area charts, pie charts, and XY graphs. Choice of PDF, PNG and JPG output.
  • BARCHART Tool [17]. Free online bar chart generator. Also; line charts and pie charts. The tool is based on the free software JFreeChart.
  • Charts Generator Quality Tools [18]. Free online tools for creating histograms (bar charts), Pareto charts, control charts, scatterplots, scatter charts, scatter diagrams, etc..
  • Free Online Tools and Software to Create Charts, Graphs, Flowcharts, Diagrams etc. [19].
  • Top 5 Websites to create your Graph/Chart online. [20]
  • ChartGo.com [21]. Free and easy to use online chart application. Ideal for students.

[edit] See also

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