Chart types: which chart should you use?
34 chart types explained — what each one shows, when to use it, when not to, and a free maker for every one of them.
Comparing values
Charts for ranking things and comparing sizes across categories.
Bar Chart
Rank things and compare sizes, accurately. Upload a spreadsheet, pick your categories and values, and publish an interactive bar chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Bar Chart makerComparing valuesColumn Chart
Vertical bars, built from your spreadsheet. Upload a CSV or Excel file, pick a label column and a value column, and publish an interactive column chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Column Chart makerComparing valuesGrouped Bar Chart
Compare several series across the same categories, side by side. Upload your spreadsheet, pick the categories and the series, and publish an interactive grouped bar chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Grouped Bar Chart makerComparing valuesGrouped Column Chart
Put two or more series side by side in every category, drawn as vertical columns. Upload your spreadsheet, pick the categories and the series, and publish an interactive grouped column chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Grouped Column Chart makerComparing valuesRadar Chart
Compare a few things across several measures at once, and see the shape of their strengths. Upload your spreadsheet, pick your axes, and publish an interactive radar chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Radar Chart makerComparing valuesTable
Turn a spreadsheet into a searchable, sortable table your readers can actually use. Upload a CSV or Excel file, style the columns, and publish an interactive table you can embed anywhere — free.
Table makerComparing valuesDumbbell Chart
Compare two values per category and make the gap between them the point. Upload your data and publish an interactive dumbbell chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Dumbbell Chart makerComparing valuesGantt Chart
Turn a list of tasks with start and end dates into a Gantt chart you can publish. Upload a spreadsheet, bind the date columns, and get an interactive timeline with a bar per task, colour-coded by phase — free, and embeddable anywhere.
Gantt Chart makerComparing valuesPolar Area Chart
Bars wrapped around a circle, each sector reaching out as far as its value. Upload your categories and numbers, and publish an interactive polar area chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Polar Area Chart makerComparing valuesWord Cloud
Turn a list of terms and their counts into a word cloud you can style, embed and export. Upload a spreadsheet, set the size range and rotation, and publish — free.
Word Cloud makerParts of a whole
Charts that break a total into the parts it is made of.
Stacked Bar Chart
Show a total and its parts in one bar. Upload your spreadsheet, choose the categories to stack, and publish an interactive stacked bar chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Stacked Bar Chart makerParts of a wholeStacked Column Chart
Show a total and its parts in one vertical column. Upload your spreadsheet, choose the categories to stack, and publish an interactive stacked column chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Stacked Column Chart makerParts of a wholePie Chart
Split a total into its parts and let one share do the talking. Upload your spreadsheet, pick your categories, and publish an interactive pie chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Pie Chart makerParts of a wholeDonut Chart
Break a total into its parts, with room in the middle for the number that matters. Upload your data, pick your categories, and publish an interactive donut chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Donut Chart makerParts of a wholeTreemap
Fit a whole hierarchy into one rectangle, sized by value. Upload your categories and numbers, and publish an interactive treemap you can embed anywhere — free.
Treemap makerParts of a wholeSunburst Chart
Show a hierarchy as rings, each level radiating out from the last. Upload your categories and values, and publish an interactive sunburst chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Sunburst Chart makerParts of a wholeMarimekko Chart
Show two dimensions of a market at once: how big each segment is, and how it splits inside. Upload your data and publish an interactive Marimekko chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Marimekko Chart makerParts of a wholeFunnel Chart
Show how many people make it through each stage of a process, and how many drop out. Upload your stage names and counts, and publish an interactive funnel chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Funnel Chart makerChange over time
Charts that show how values change across time.
Line Chart
Show how something changed, and whether it is still changing. Upload your spreadsheet, pick a time column and your measures, and publish an interactive line graph you can embed anywhere — free.
Line Chart makerChange over timeArea Chart
Show a quantity over time with the volume underneath it filled in. Upload your spreadsheet, pick a time column and your measures, and publish an interactive area chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Area Chart makerChange over timeStream Graph
A stacked area chart with no flat baseline, flowing around a centre line. Upload your data and publish an interactive stream graph you can embed anywhere — free.
Stream Graph makerChange over timeBump Chart
Track how a ranking changed over time — who rose, who fell, and where they crossed. Upload your data and publish an interactive bump chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Bump Chart makerChange over timeTimeline
Lay out a sequence of dated events — with notes and images on each one — and publish an interactive timeline chart you can embed anywhere. Free, no design work required.
Timeline makerRelationships
Charts that show how two or more measures move together.
Scatter Plot
Plot two variables against each other and see whether they actually move together. Upload a spreadsheet, pick your X and Y columns, and publish an interactive scatter plot you can embed anywhere — free.
Scatter Plot makerRelationshipsBubble Chart
Three variables, one chart: position for two of them, bubble size for the third. Upload your data, map the columns, and publish an interactive bubble chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Bubble Chart makerRelationshipsSankey Diagram
Trace where a quantity comes from and where it ends up, stage by stage. Upload a source, target and value column, and publish an interactive Sankey diagram you can embed anywhere — free.
Sankey Diagram makerRelationshipsChord Diagram
Show flows between every pair in a group, arranged around a circle. Upload a source, target and value column, and publish an interactive chord diagram you can embed anywhere — free.
Chord Diagram makerRelationshipsQuadrant Chart
Split a scatter plot into four labelled boxes and turn a cloud of points into a decision. Upload your data, set the dividing lines, and publish an interactive quadrant chart you can embed anywhere — free.
Quadrant Chart makerDistribution
Charts that show how values spread out across a range.
Histogram
See the shape of your numbers, not just their average. Upload a spreadsheet, pick one numeric column, and publish an interactive histogram you can embed anywhere — free.
Histogram makerDistributionBox Plot
Compare distributions side by side, not just their averages. Upload a spreadsheet, pick a group column and a value column, and publish an interactive box and whisker plot you can embed anywhere — free.
Box Plot makerDistributionViolin Plot
See the whole shape of a distribution, not just its five-number summary. Upload a spreadsheet, pick a group column and a value column, and publish an interactive violin plot you can embed anywhere — free.
Violin Plot makerDistributionHeatmap
Turn a grid of numbers into a pattern you can see. Upload a row, column and value for each cell, and publish an interactive heatmap you can embed anywhere — free.
Heatmap makerDistributionPopulation Pyramid
Compare two groups across the same set of bands, back to back. Upload your age groups and counts, and publish an interactive population pyramid you can embed anywhere — free.
Population Pyramid makerMaps and places
Charts that show how a value varies across geography.
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