Chart types: which chart should you use?
47 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 a free, interactive bar chart you can embed anywhere.
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 for 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, for 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. It's free.
Dumbbell Chart makerComparing valuesBullet Chart
Show each KPI as a bar against its target, on bands that say whether the result is poor, fair or good. Upload a spreadsheet and publish a compact scorecard. It's free.
Bullet 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 for 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 for free.
Word Cloud makerComparing valuesGauge Chart
Show a value on a fixed arc against its minimum, maximum and target, as one gauge or a grid of them. Upload a spreadsheet and publish it for free.
Gauge Chart 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 for 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 for 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 for 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 for 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 for free.
Funnel Chart makerParts of a wholeElection Results Chart
Show seats or votes as one stacked bar with a majority line and the previous election underneath. Upload your results and publish it for free.
Election Results 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, all 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 for 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 a free interactive bump chart you can embed anywhere.
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 makerChange over timeHorserace Chart
Animate who is ahead at every stage, with a line and a flag or logo for each contender. Upload a spreadsheet and publish the race for free.
Horserace Chart 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, for 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 a free interactive bubble chart you can embed anywhere.
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, completely 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 for free.
Heatmap makerDistributionCalendar Heatmap
Draw one square per day, laid out in real calendar weeks and shaded by value. Upload a date and a number for each day and publish a calendar heatmap for free.
Calendar 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, at no cost.
Population Pyramid makerMaps and places
Charts that show how a value varies across geography.
Choropleth Map
Shade regions by value and let the geography carry the pattern. Upload a spreadsheet with a place column, pick your measure, and publish an interactive choropleth map you can embed anywhere, free.
Choropleth Map makerMaps and placesArc Map
Draw routes between places as curved lines on a world map. Upload origin and destination coordinates and publish an interactive arc map you can embed anywhere. It's free.
Arc Map makerMaps and placesConnections Globe
Draw flows between countries as arcs on a rotatable globe, with a ranked list of each place's biggest connections. Upload origin and destination pairs and embed it anywhere. It's free.
Connections Globe makerMaps and places3D Globe
Plot points by latitude and longitude on a globe you can drag and zoom, with optional country shading and a timeline. Upload a spreadsheet and publish it free.
3D Globe makerInteractive and media
Players, widgets and explorers readers use rather than just look at.
Audio Player
Turn a spreadsheet of audio links into a playlist readers can play right on your page. Upload your tracks and publish an embeddable audio list. It's free.
Audio Player makerInteractive and mediaCalculator
Ask visitors a few questions and show them a result worked out from their answers. Build an embeddable quiz-style calculator from a spreadsheet. It's free.
Calculator makerInteractive and mediaCountdown
Count down to a launch, an event or a deadline with a live clock you can embed anywhere. Set the date, style the digits and add milestones. It's free.
Countdown makerInteractive and mediaData Explorer
Let readers explore your dataset themselves. Bubbles you can resize, recolour, regroup, filter and search, with a map view built in. It's free.
Data Explorer makerInteractive and mediaDraw the Line Chart
Show the start of a trend and ask readers to draw the rest. They guess, you reveal the real line and score the result. It's free.
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