Types of Visualizations

For an overview on the different types of visualizations and when to use them, refer to the following book, for which the author published a free version of the preprint:

Fundamentals of Data Visualization

Yan Holtz created a beautiful guide for finding the right data visualization. The website has more great resources on data visualization such as typical caveats and a gallery for charts in Python and R:

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need

References

Wilke, C. Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures. First edition, O’Reilly Media, 2019.