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I have a dataset of customers and products they could have. There are a total of 5 different products (A,B,C,D,E). A customer can have any combination of the products, for example a customer can have just A or AB or ABC. So there are 31 total combinations that a customer can have.

Is there a graphic anyone can recommend to display all possible combinations and a count for each one? For example A - 20, AC - 50, etc.

The only option I could think of was a 31 x 31 matrix and use color to signify values. It will be a big table but at least it will show a high level view of the data.

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Do you need to just display the combination and number?

Have you tried a concentric ring graph (each ring being a product)? Example here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states Color in the spaces that represent owning a product and place the number on the outside of the ring (where the state is in the example).

Or perhaps overlapping circle graph / venn diagram (each circle being a product)?

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    this is a very interesting chart, had to draw it up on the whiteboard to understand how it will works. I don't think it will apply very well in this situation because the thing which draws the eyes on the graph is the color. In my situation, the color would be simply a product combination and the most important part, which is the count, would just be a number. I think I will be able to use it in my analysis, just not for this part.
    – jmich738
    Commented Mar 6, 2018 at 4:44
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While it's nice to have an option to see a full matrix of possible combinations, as an addition to it, a matrix with a collapsible rows can be shown as well.

A high-level approximation presented below.

  1. The initial state:

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  1. When a user presses the + button next to a row:

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  1. It expands, showing the combinations amount, that themselves can be expanded:

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Please note, that it is a general idea that should be evolved further for the needs of an effective representation considering what kind of analysis will be performed on the data.

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    I agree with your comments. I guess I was looking for something like a correlation plot or a heatmap. But maybe it does not fit this type of dataset. A drilldown table will be a good option, but probaly too much work for the type of insights we are looking to get out of this dataset. I will probably just stick with a simple table. Out of all the 32 combinations, it's very likely that only 3 or 4 would actually be of interest.
    – jmich738
    Commented Mar 8, 2018 at 23:05

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