Commons:Chart and graph resources
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Contents
- 1 Top
- 2 Chart making tools, help, and info on Wikipedia
- 3 Free online charting sites
- 4 Convert charts and graphs to wiki code or image files
- 5 Converting spreadsheets and database tables to wikitable format
- 6 Where to ask for help
- 7 Create timelines
- 8 Resource categories
- 9 Software
- 10 Guidelines for creating better charts and graphs
- 11 Tutorials
- 12 Galleries for various types of charts and graphs
- 13 See also
- 14 More external links
Top[edit]
- See also: Category:Statistics.
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; they should always follow accessibility criteria. 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. Create more categories.
To find categorized charts and graphs please see:
See also categories: Chart making tools, help, and info on Wikipedia[edit]
There is also a lot of how-to info, tools, and help on Wikipedia too:
- Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Category:Graphics templates
Free online charting sites[edit]
See: Commons:Create charts and graphs online
Convert charts and graphs to wiki code or image files[edit]
- Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files
- Commons:PDF to image files. Many free charts, graphs, and diagrams from the U.S. federal government and elsewhere are in the PDF format.
Converting spreadsheets and database tables to wikitable format[edit]
From Help:Table:
To convert from spreadsheets (such as those produced by Gnumeric, Microsoft Excel, or LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org/ Calc), you can use the Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki converter. Or you can save your spreadsheets as .csv and use the csv2wikitable converter.
The online csv2wp script (documentation) converts comma-separated values (CSV) format to wikitable pipe syntax. You may use this to import tables from both spreadsheets and databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FileMaker, Microsoft SQL Server & Access, Oracle, DB2, etc.).
Where to ask for help[edit]
- Commons:Graphic Lab - for help with editing or creating images.
- en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab - for help with editing or creating images.
- en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration - ask project members for help.
- en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration - ask at this talk page.
- meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests - request creation/improvement of diagrams.
SVG[edit]
Create timelines[edit]
EasyTimeline[edit]
- en:Help:EasyTimeline syntax
- en:Category:Timeline templates
- mw:Extension:EasyTimeline
- mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax
WikiTimeline[edit]
Resource categories[edit]
- en:Category:Bar chart templates - for Wikipedia templates to make bar charts.
- en:Category:Graphic templates
- en:Category:Wikipedia image help
The following diagram categories (and/or their subcategories) may still have statistical charts, graphs, or tables in them. The individual files can be moved and/or added to subcategories of Category:Charts and Category:Statistics. As many files as possible should be categorized in the right subcategories. New subcategories may be created. Files may need to be categorized in multiple categories. Search for more categories here and here.
- Category:Biology diagrams
- Category:Cybernetic diagrams
- Category:Ecological diagrams
- Category:Economic diagrams
- Category:Fundamental diagrams
- Category:Management diagrams
- Category:Medical diagrams
- Category:Physics diagrams
- Category:Politics diagrams
- Category:Psychological diagrams
- Category:Sports diagrams
- Category:Wikinews diagrams
Software[edit]
- en:Category:Diagramming software and en:Category:Free diagramming software
- en:List of information graphics software#Plotting programs (graphing programs)
- en:List of vector graphics editors and en:Comparison of vector graphics editors
- en:Comparison of spreadsheet software - some also create charts.
- en:List of online spreadsheets - some also create charts.
Guidelines for creating better charts and graphs[edit]
- 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.
Tutorials[edit]
- en:Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Diagrams, charts and graphs - OpenLearn - The Open University.
Galleries for various types of charts and graphs[edit]
- Charts and graphs - links to Commons galleries with many types of charts and graphs.
See also[edit]
- Commons:Diagram resources
- Commons:Map resources
- Category:Commons resources
- Category:Graphic Tool
- mw:Extension:Graph/Demo
More external links[edit]
- Open Directory - Science: Math: Software: Graphing.
- Top 5 Websites to create your Graph/Chart online.
- Free Online Tools and Software to Create Charts, Graphs, Flowcharts, Diagrams, etc.
- Zoho DB and Reports. is the name of the free [4] 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: [5]
