FROM QUESTION TO CHART

Choose With Confidence

Start with what you want to learn. Find a useful chart, understand its limits, and try a working example.

What Do You Want to Show?

6 category guides

Choose a Choropleth Map for regional values or a Bubble Map for locations. Compare rates, totals, circle areas, missing data, and projection limits.

Compare categories, paired values, targets, balances, and process stages. Choose among bars, Dumbbell, Slope, Bullet, Waterfall, Funnel, and Radar.

Choose Line, Area, Stacked Area, Candlestick, or Gantt for ordered values and intervals. Understand baselines, session spacing, and elapsed time.

Compare Pie, Donut, stacked bars, Treemap, and Sunburst for parts of a whole. Keep denominators and nested totals clear without double counting.

Choose Scatter, Bubble, Heatmap, Sankey, Chord, or Network. Distinguish paired measurements, directed flows, weighted pairs, and simple connections.

Compare Histogram, Box Plot, Density, Violin, and Beeswarm. Match counts, summaries, or raw observations to a view of spread and concentration.

Side-by-side decisions

CHART COMPARISON

A bar chart compares categories; a histogram groups numeric observations into intervals. See how the same order data can answer two questions.

CHART COMPARISON

Compare line and area charts using the same monthly values. Learn when a fill helps, how baselines matter, and why area is not a running total.