There are far more chart types available to us than the standard line, bar, and pie charts we learned as children. Scatterplots, slope charts, dot plots, Sankey diagrams, and dozens of other “non-standard” graphs can often do a better job communicating data — or make it more engaging. But knowing which graph suits your needs requires knowing what’s possible.
Over the years I’ve built a collection of nearly 2,000 real-world visuals that I use for inspiration and as teaching materials. These examples illustrate the wide variety of graphic types, show variations in typography, color, tools, and design, and demonstrate both good and bad practices in data visualization.
I’m making that collection available here so you can explore it, draw inspiration, and learn from real examples.
You can also check out the One Chart at a Time video series on my YouTube channel, where more than 50 experts explain how many of these graph types work. And for a deeper dive, the catalog is one of the core resources behind my book Better Data Visualizations.
A few notes about the catalog:
- Please excuse typos and occasional snark — this started as a personal resource and hasn’t been fully edited
- Graph names may not always be perfectly accurate
- The URL column links to the original source; clicking the image downloads it
- You can download a CSV or Excel file of the full table by clicking the three dots in the top right of the table
- The zip file (900MB+) contains the entire collection and was last updated July 1, 2025
- The interactive catalog updates automatically as new images are added