Bars and columns
Revenue per region, hours per project, complaints per supplier. Sorted by size, a bar chart shows the distance between first and last without anyone doing arithmetic.
Visualization
The right chart answers before anyone reads the legend.
Bars, lines, shares, gauges, tables, maps: 40+ chart and widget types come from the same shelf, and swapping one for another costs a dropdown, not a rebuild. Click into a bar and the view follows you a level down.
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Six families
Six kinds of picture, forty-odd variants of them
Lines and areas
Twelve months of orders, a daily curve, a forecast running on past today. Time goes across, the value goes up, and the shape of the line is the message.
Shares of a whole
Pie, donut, stacked bar: what a total is made of, in a handful of parts. Past five or six categories, a sorted bar is easier on the reader.
Single figures and gauges
One number, with the comparison period beside it and the direction it moved. A gauge turns the same number into a distance from target you can read across the room.
Tables and grids
Some questions end in rows. A table widget sorts, groups and adds up, and it stands on the board next to the charts under exactly the same filters.
Maps
Turnover by country, service calls by district. Areas take their colour from the value, so the outlier shows up as a place rather than as a line number.
Visualization in figures
40+
Chart and widget types, from a bar chart to a map
1
Click from the summary to the level beneath it
0
Lines of code to change how a visual looks
Live
Every visual redraws when a filter changes
Choosing well
When to reach for which
Start from the sentence, not from the gallery
A chart type is the answer to a question. “Compared with what” asks for bars. “Since when” asks for a line. “What is it made of” asks for a share. Say the question out loud first and the type is usually already decided.
If it turns out wrong, the correction is a dropdown. Fields, filters, sorting and formatting stay in place while the picture changes, which makes trying both cheaper than debating which one is better.
One click deeper, and the neighbours come along
A bar is rarely the last stop. Click the region and the same chart shows its districts; click again and you are looking at the individual branch. A step back returns the level you came from, so nobody gets lost three floors down.
Linked views extend that across the board: pick a segment in one widget and the others narrow to the same selection. The table next to the chart then lists precisely the orders behind the bar you just clicked.
A filter arrives and the picture recalculates
Set the period to last quarter and every visual reads its data again: axes rescale, the sorting follows the new values, colours stay where they were so the eye does not have to relearn the legend. What is on screen is a query that just ran, not a saved image.
Where those filters sit and who decides them is a question about the board, not about the chart – building a dashboard covers that side.
See your own figures as a chart
Send us one table before the appointment. We put it on screen in the three chart types that suit it and you decide which one stays.