---
title: "Chart reference"
description: "Every chart you can add to a dashboard, with an example of each and a page on its data and options."
section: "Widgets"
canonical: "https://banksync.io/docs/widgets/chart-reference"
specs: ["dashboards"]
operationBindings: [{"capability":"dashboards","operation":"dashboards.author"}]
---

Every chart you can add to a dashboard, grouped the way the widget library groups them. Each page shows an example you can open as a live chart, the data the chart needs, and every option it has. For the styling every chart shares, see [Chart styling](/docs/widgets/chart-styling).

## Time series

- [Line chart](/docs/widgets/chart-line): Time series over any field
- [Area chart](/docs/widgets/chart-area): Stacked or overlaid area
- [Sparkline](/docs/widgets/chart-sparkline): Tiny inline trend
- [Stacked area](/docs/widgets/chart-stacked-area): Series stacked over time
- [Stream graph](/docs/widgets/chart-stream): Centered stacked area
- [Step line](/docs/widgets/chart-step-line): Discrete jumps over time

## Comparison

- [Bar chart](/docs/widgets/chart-bar): Horizontal categorical bars
- [Column chart](/docs/widgets/chart-column): Vertical categorical bars
- [Grouped bar](/docs/widgets/chart-grouped-bar): Side-by-side bars per series
- [Stacked bar](/docs/widgets/chart-stacked-bar): Composition per category
- [100% stacked bar](/docs/widgets/chart-normalized-stacked-bar): Composition as percentage
- [Lollipop](/docs/widgets/chart-lollipop): Bars with circle endpoints
- [Dot plot](/docs/widgets/chart-dot): Discrete category dots
- [Bullet chart](/docs/widgets/chart-bullet): Single value with target bands

## Distribution

- [Scatter plot](/docs/widgets/chart-scatter): Two measures on x/y
- [Histogram](/docs/widgets/chart-histogram): Distribution of one measure
- [Box plot](/docs/widgets/chart-boxplot): Quartiles with whiskers
- [Violin](/docs/widgets/chart-violin): Density per category
- [Beeswarm](/docs/widgets/chart-beeswarm): Non-overlapping dot plot
- [Density](/docs/widgets/chart-density): Kernel-smoothed distribution
- [Ridgeline](/docs/widgets/chart-ridgeline): Stacked distributions
- [Strip plot](/docs/widgets/chart-strip): Each value as a tick
- [Jitter plot](/docs/widgets/chart-jitter): Scattered dots per category

## Part-of-whole

- [Pie chart](/docs/widgets/chart-pie): Categorical share
- [Donut chart](/docs/widgets/chart-donut): Pie with center label
- [Treemap](/docs/widgets/chart-treemap): Nested rectangles by value
- [Sunburst](/docs/widgets/chart-sunburst): Hierarchical radial wedges
- [Nightingale](/docs/widgets/chart-nightingale): Radial polar pie
- [Radial bar](/docs/widgets/chart-radial-bar): Polar bar chart
- [Mosaic](/docs/widgets/chart-mosaic): Marimekko tiled cells
- [Waffle](/docs/widgets/chart-waffle): 100-unit grid share
- [Funnel](/docs/widgets/chart-funnel): Conversion stage flow
- [Pyramid](/docs/widgets/chart-pyramid): Inverted funnel

## Radial

- [Radar chart](/docs/widgets/chart-radar): Multi-axis comparison
- [Polar chart](/docs/widgets/chart-polar): Radial categorical
- [Circular bar](/docs/widgets/chart-circular-bar): Bars around a circle

## Matrix

- [Heatmap matrix](/docs/widgets/chart-heatmap-matrix): X/Y categorical heat
- [Calendar heatmap](/docs/widgets/chart-calendar-heatmap): GitHub-style year grid
- [Punchcard](/docs/widgets/chart-punchcard): Dot intensity grid
- [Heatmap](/docs/widgets/chart-heatmap): Color-coded grid
- [Correlation](/docs/widgets/chart-correlation-matrix): Field-by-field correlation

## Single value

- [Gauge](/docs/widgets/chart-gauge): Needle on a band scale
- [Meter](/docs/widgets/chart-meter): Bar against a target
- [Progress](/docs/widgets/chart-progress): Bar / ring percentage

## Flow & network

- [Sankey](/docs/widgets/chart-sankey): Flows between nodes
- [Chord diagram](/docs/widgets/chart-chord): Cross-category links
- [Alluvial](/docs/widgets/chart-alluvial): Multi-stage flow
- [Network graph](/docs/widgets/chart-network): Force-directed nodes + edges
- [Arc diagram](/docs/widgets/chart-arc): Linear node arcs

## Financial

- [Candlestick](/docs/widgets/chart-candlestick): OHLC price candles
- [OHLC](/docs/widgets/chart-ohlc): Open-High-Low-Close bars
- [Volume profile](/docs/widgets/chart-volume-profile): Volume traded per price
- [Waterfall](/docs/widgets/chart-waterfall): Walk from a start to an end amount, step by step (P\&L, net-worth change)

## Advanced

- [Layered chart](/docs/widgets/chart-layer): Overlaid marks on a shared x axis

## Numbers and tables

- [KPI](/docs/widgets/chart-kpi): Single headline metric with delta/sparkline
- [Table](/docs/widgets/chart-table): Sortable, filterable data grid

## Correlation

- [Bubble chart](/docs/widgets/chart-bubble): Scatter sized by a field
- [Hexbin](/docs/widgets/chart-hexbin): Binned 2D density
- [Contour](/docs/widgets/chart-contour): 2D density contours
- [Parallel coordinates](/docs/widgets/chart-parallel-coords): Multi-dimensional comparison