Used for creating multiple views in a single specification. Faceting is the process of extracting different parts of a dataset ('facets') and applying the same or similar visualization specification to each.
A trellis bar chart showing the US population distribution of age groups and gender in 2000.
Barley crop yields in 1931 and 1932 shown as stacked bar charts.
Scatterplots of movie takings vs profits for different MPAA ratings.
Disitributions of car engine power for different countries of origin.
Anscombe's Quartet
The Trellis display by Becker et al. helped establish small multiples as a "powerful mechanism for understanding interactions in studies of how a response depends on explanatory variables". Here reproduced as a trellis of Barley yields from the 1930s, complete with main-effects ordering to facilitate comparison.
Stock prices of four large companies as a small multiples of area charts.
Compact Trellis Grid of Bar Charts. A simple grid of bar charts to compare performance data.