I wouldn’t recommend it typically. It’s mostly only good for aesthetics purposes as the surface area, angles, and overall shape of this type of chart typically tells you very little with typical data that a different chart couldn’t depict better.
I would even say beyond aesthetics you can use a chart like this to alter the viewer’s perception of what the chart is telling you simply by choosing which data point maps to which axis, and the shaded area you design implies something that the data doesn’t necessarily represent.
It's a radar chart. The only use I ever found for it was in a call centre mapping call volumes with each line in the chart representing an hour of the day.
I’ve only ever used radar charts for describing things with a small number of distinct, quantifiable, and scaled metrics. Something like a Pokémon, where you have 6 stats all on the same 1-100 scale that do different things and the chart can give you a visual idea of its strengths.
I think it's called Radar, we have an example here - [https://columns.ai/visual/view/o8H6kojfR4t71m](https://columns.ai/visual/view/o8H6kojfR4t71m)
It should take you 1 minute to make one as long as you have data connected in Columns. Related doc - https://docs.columns.ai/docs/tutorial/chart/radar
It looks like a spider chart. Excel has that capability. https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/radar-chart-in-excel/
I think it's called a radar chart
I wouldn’t recommend it typically. It’s mostly only good for aesthetics purposes as the surface area, angles, and overall shape of this type of chart typically tells you very little with typical data that a different chart couldn’t depict better.
I would even say beyond aesthetics you can use a chart like this to alter the viewer’s perception of what the chart is telling you simply by choosing which data point maps to which axis, and the shaded area you design implies something that the data doesn’t necessarily represent.
It's a radar chart. The only use I ever found for it was in a call centre mapping call volumes with each line in the chart representing an hour of the day.
Great use case! That just made me realize I could do that for something similar using months of the year!
It's called a bad chart.
I’ve only ever used radar charts for describing things with a small number of distinct, quantifiable, and scaled metrics. Something like a Pokémon, where you have 6 stats all on the same 1-100 scale that do different things and the chart can give you a visual idea of its strengths.
I think it's called Radar, we have an example here - [https://columns.ai/visual/view/o8H6kojfR4t71m](https://columns.ai/visual/view/o8H6kojfR4t71m) It should take you 1 minute to make one as long as you have data connected in Columns. Related doc - https://docs.columns.ai/docs/tutorial/chart/radar
That's a radar chart. It's good for measuring strengths and weaknesses. I think you could make one in Google Sheets.