Chart Types for Your Dashboard

Understanding the chart types that are best for your data will allow you to get the most out of your dashboard.

Visualizing multidimensional data, emphasize the magnitude of change over time and draw attention to trends.

You can play with an example here, or a percent area chart example here.

Area Chart

Bar ChartDiscrete data, showing the relationship between a part to a whole, categories being compared or generalizations about the data.

You can play with an example here, a grouped bar chart here, or a percent bar chart here.

Funnel ChartVisualize optimizations, dropoffs - which represent the progressive reduction of data, such as the stages in a sales process.

Line ChartConveying changes over time, shows how data changes at equal intervals of time.

You can play with an example here.

Pie ChartShow the contributions of data segments as a percentage of a whole.

You can play with a pie chart example here.

Scatter PlotFine the relationship between two variables, visualize how much one variable is affected by another, view correlations between variables.

You can play with the a scatter plot example chart here.

Bullet Graph

Displaying single values within some quantitative context, compare a primary measure to one or more measures in the context of qualitative ranges of performance.

Single Value Chart

Emphasizing a particular data point and bringing attention to a value such as total revenue, growth or conversion.

You can play with a single value chart example here.