Chart types in Golden

Golden ships a wide chart library. Each type has its own shelves and rendering rules. You can switch between them at any time from the chart type selector.

Comparison

• Bar - vertical bars, one per category.
• Horizontal bar - bars laid on their side.
• Stacked bar - segments stacked within each bar.
• 100% stacked bar - stacked bars normalized to 100%.
• Horizontal stacked bar and 100% horizontal stacked bar - the horizontal variants.
• Diverging bar - bars that split on both sides of a baseline.
• Lollipop and dot plot - a dot at each value, on a thin stick or, as a dot plot, on its own.
• Range bar - bars showing a span from start to end.
• Interval plot - a point estimate drawn on a thin whisker from a low to a high value, for showing a value with its range.
• Bullet - a single measure drawn against a target, over shaded qualitative bands, for progress toward a goal.
• Radial - polar layouts including radar, radial bar, stellar, radial lollipop, and sunburst.

Trend

• Line - classic time-series.
• Area - filled line.
• Stacked area and 100% stacked area - layered area charts.
• Combo - mix bar and line on the same axes.

Distribution

• Histogram - bins for a single measure.
• Box plot - quartiles, median, whiskers, and outliers.
• Scatter - one mark per row across two measures.

Composition

• Pie and donut - share of a whole.
• Treemap - nested rectangles sized by measure.
• Sankey - flow between categories.
• Funnel - step-by-step drop-off.
• Waterfall - running total with positive and negative steps.

Geographic

• Map - generic map render.
• Shape map - colored regions.
• Filled map and choropleth - region-shaded thematic maps.
• Density map and heatmap - point density on a map.

Tables and KPIs

• Table - a flat data grid.
• Pivot table - rows, columns, and aggregated values.
• Matrix heatmap - a colored grid with optional row or column normalization.
• KPI and big number - a single headline figure.

Specialized

• Word cloud - sized text from a categorical field.
• Retention - cohort retention grid.
• Gantt - tasks on a time axis.