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title: "Chart Type Selection"
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## Overview

The first step in creating your chart is selecting the appropriate chart type to most effectively visualise your data. There are two methods for chart creation:

1. Auto Chart
2. Chart Selection

## Auto Chart

The Auto Chart functionality provides some common component areas to be populated, and depending on what fields you drag into them, a chart will be generated.

![image](media://908c08ad-fc2d-4a06-a1ec-f14cb65325f9)

**<span style="color: #cc0000">Note:</span>** auto charts generate common chart types such as; Bar, Column, Scatter, and Line. If you are looking for a specific chart or specialty chart it would be better to select the type from the Chart Selection panel on the right.

## Chart Selection

The following list of chart choices will assist you to make you selection. After you have made a selection it is easy to swap between chart types to see how your data might look with different visualisations.

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## Chart Selector Guide

![image](media://6570af5a-4b55-4f25-bc74-a4b64b90ebc1)


## Cross Tab Charts

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