Understanding the chart types that are best for your data will allow you to get the most out of your dashboard. Charts can reveal outliers and interesting facts that may be otherwise hidden, and if you are using the wrong type of chart you may not unlock the insights you are looking for.

1. Chart Types for Your Dashboard

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

3. 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

4. Bar Chart
Discrete 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.

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

6. Line Chart
Conveying changes over time, shows how data changes at equal
intervals of time.
You can play with an example here.

7. Pie Chart
Show the contributions of data segments as a percentage of a
whole.
You can play with a pie chart example here.

8. Scatter Plot
Fine 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

9. 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.

10. 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.