Charts and visuals

Every visual type, what each is for, and how to choose between them.

• Choosing a chartMatch the visual to the question rather than to the data.
• Bar, column, line and areaThe comparison and trend workhorses, including stacked and combo variants.
• Pie, donut, funnel and treemapComposition, stages and hierarchy.
• Cards, KPIs and gaugesSingle-number visuals, and showing progress toward a target.
• Table and matrixWhen the records themselves are the answer.
• Slicers, text, images, shapes and buttonsThe widgets that make a canvas a designed page rather than a grid of charts.