Chart Type Options
The Charts screen supports a variety of visualization types to help you display your data in the most meaningful way. When creating or editing a chart, you can select from the chart types listed below. Each type is suited for different kinds of data and analysis, so choosing the right one will depend on what you want to communicate.
| Chart Type | Description |
| Area Chart | Area charts are similar to line charts in that they represent variables with the same scale, but area charts stack the metrics on top of each other. |
| Bar Chart | Bar charts are used to show metrics as a series of bars. |
| Big Number | Showcases a single metric front-and-center. Best used to call attention to a KPI. |
| Big Number with Trendline | Showcases a single number accompanied by a simple line chart, to call attention to an important metric along with its change over time or other dimension. |
| Box Plot | Compares the distributions of a related metric across multiple groups. The box in the middle emphasizes the mean, median, and inner 2 quartiles. The whiskers around each box visualize the min, max, range, and outer 2 quartiles. |
| Bubble Chart | Visualizes a metric across three dimensions of data in a single chart (X axis, Y axis, and bubble size). Bubbles from the same group can be showcased using bubble color. |
| Funnel Chart | Showcases how a metric changes as the funnel progresses. Useful for visualizing drop-off between stages in a pipeline or lifecycle. |
| Gantt Chart | Visualizes important events over a time span. Every data point is displayed as a separate event along a horizontal line. |
| Gauge Chart | Uses a gauge to showcase progress of a metric towards a target. The position of the dial represents the progress and the terminal value in the gauge represents the target value. |
| Graph Chart | Displays connections between entities in a graph structure. Useful for mapping relationships and showing which nodes are important in a network. |
| Heatmap | Visualizes a related metric across pairs of groups. Heatmaps excel at showcasing the correlation or strength between two groups. |
| Line Chart | Used to visualize measurements taken over a given category. Displays information as a series of data points connected by straight line segments. |
| Mixed Chart | Visualizes two different series using the same x-axis. Both series can be visualized with a different chart type. |
| Pie Chart | Displays part-to-whole relationships. |
| Pivot Table | Used to summarize a set of data by grouping together multiple statistics along two axes. |
| Radar Chart | Visualizes a parallel set of metrics across multiple groups. Each group is visualized using its own line of points and each metric is represented as an edge in the chart. |
| Scatter Plot | Has the horizontal axis in linear units, with points connected in order. Shows a statistical relationship between two variables. |
| Sunburst Chart | Uses circles to visualize the flow of data through different stages of a system. Useful for multi-stage, multi-group visualizing of funnels and pipelines. |
| Table | Classic row-by-column spreadsheet-like view of a dataset. Use tables to showcase a view into the underlying data or to show aggregated metrics. |
| Tree Chart | Visualizes multiple levels of hierarchy using a familiar tree-like structure. |
| Tree Map | Shows hierarchical relationships of data, with the value represented by area, showing proportion and contribution to the whole. |
| Waterfall Chart | Helps in understanding the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. These intermediate values can either be time based or category based. |
| World Map | A map of the world that can indicate values in different countries. |