A chart is a visual presentation of data in which the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart. A chart can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structure.
Charts allow viewers to quickly and seamlessly view comparisons and trends than looking at the raw data.
| Chart Type | Definition |
| Line | This chart type shows a series of data points connected with a line. Line charts are most often used to visualize data that changes over time. |
| Column | This chart type displays data as vertical bars. |
| Cluster Column | This chart type is used to compare multiple categories of data within individual sub-items and between sub-items. E.g, to compare revenue for each year within each region, and between regions. |
| Stacked Column | This chart type allows you to compare items in a specific range of values and to show the relationship of the individual sub-items with the whole. E.g, the overall revenue for each year and the proportion of the total revenue by each region. |
| Bar | This chart type is exactly the same as a column chart, only the x-axis and y-axis are switched. |
| Cluster Bar | This chart type displays more than one data series in clustered horizontal columns. Each data series shares the same axis labels, so horizontal bars are grouped by category. |
| Stacked Bar |
This chart type allows you to see the size of a group relative to other groups, but also shows the parts that make up the whole group. |
| Pie | This chart type is a circular chart divided into sectors that are proportional to the quantity that each sector represents. |
| Geo | This chart type allows you to visualize data broken down by geographic regions. |
| Guage | This chart type is used to present KPIs, for example, on an executive dashboard to easily see a performance result. |
| Bubble | This chart type is used for comparing the relationships between data objects in 3 numeric-data dimensions: the X-axis data, the Y-axis data, and data represented by the bubble size. |
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