# How to Choose the Best Chart for Your Data

<http://lifehacker.com/5909501/how-to-choose-the-best-chart-for-your-data>

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## What Jamie wrote

Good article, worth it just for the hilarious header image.

<blockquote>
When you're putting together a chart, you're trying to show one of four things with the data you have: a relationship between data points, a comparison of data points, a composition of data, or a distribution of data.
</blockquote>

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