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Data visualization experts love their charts and their names, many make living inventing new cool ones! Check out The Data Visualisation Catalogue and The Data Viz Project. You’ll see an almost overwhelming number of them:
Many are very similar, so what’s the point? Well, most charts have a specific purpose, so it does help to have different names to tell them apart.
But what about Qlik Sense? Many charts have dual or multiple modes. For instance, the Pie chart is also the Donut chart and the Line chart can also be an Area chart. And of course, the Bar chart, which also could be a Stacked bar chart and so forth. These variants are often found in the property panel, and they’re easy to find. I list them as standard charts too, so now I have 34 35 (in my count, probably more depending on your definition of a chart type).
But how about the charts that require a few more settings? Like the Chord diagram (derived from the map chart) or the Candlestick (derived from the boxplot). When I choose to count those, I end up with 53 61 68 73, but I’m sure we can create more!
Here’s my list of standard charts, many of them featured in the “Visualization Showcase":
| Chart | Source | From |
 | Bar chart | Standard | Bar chart |
 | Line chart | Standard | Line chart |
 | Area chart | Standard | Line chart |
 | Pie chart | Standard | Pie chart |
 | Donut chart | Standard | Pie chart |
 | KPI | Standard | KPI |
 | Gauge | Standard | Gauge |
 | Table | Standard | Table |
 | Pivot table | Standard | Pivot table |
 | Boxplot | Standard | Box plot |
 | Distribution plot | Standard | Distribution plot |
 | Histogram | Standard | Histogram |
 | Mekko chart | Standard | Mekko chart |
 | Combo chart | Standard | Combo chart |
 | Map chart points | Standard | Map chart |
Map chart pies | Standard | Map chart | |
Map chart areas | Standard | Map chart | |
Map chart lines | Standard | Map chart | |
Map chart heatmap | Standard | Map chart | |
 | Scatter plot | Standard | Scatter plot |
 | Treemap | Standard | Treemap |
 | Waterfall | Standard | Waterfall |
 | Bullet chart | Standard | Bullet chart |
Org chart | Visualization bundle | Org chart | |
 | Grid chart | Visualization bundle | Grid chart |
Funnel chart | Visualization bundle | Funnel chart | |
 | Sankey chart | Visualization bundle | Sankey chart |
| Multi KPI | Visualization bundle | Multi KPI |
| PL Pivot | Visualization bundle | PL Pivot |
| Radar chart | Visualization bundle | Radar chart |
 | Network chart | Visualization bundle | Network chart |
| Variance waterfall | Visualization bundle | Variance waterfall |
 | Wordcloud | Visualization bundle | Wordcloud |
 | Heatmap | Visualization bundle | Heatmap |
 | Trellising | Visualization bundle | Trellis container |
Below are the derived charts including links to instructions on building them:
| Name | Source | How to | From |
 | Butterfly chart | Derived Easy | Bar chart | |
 | Gantt chart | Derived Easy | Bar chart | |
 | Venn diagram | Derived Easy | Map chart | |
 | Control chart | Derived Easy | Line chart | |
 | Streamgraph | Derived Medium | Line chart | |
 | Parliament diagram | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Scatter with trackline | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Calendar chart | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Meteogram | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Bump chart | Derived Easy | Line chart | |
 | Slope graph | Derived Easy | Line chart | |
 | Timeline chart | Derived Easy | Map chart | |
 | Range chart | Derived Medium | Line chart | |
 | Spiral plot | Derived Easy | Map chart | |
 | Ridgeline chart | Derived Medium | Line chart | |
 | Chord chart | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
| QQ plot | Derived Easy | Combo chart | |
 | Coxcomb chart | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Candlestick chart | Derived Easy | Box plot | |
 | Acitivty gauge | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Violin plot | Derived Easy | Line chart | |
 | Circle timeline | Derived Easy | Scatter plot | |
 | Fish eye chart | Derived Medium | Mapchart | |
 | Stacked Venn chart | Derived Medium | Mapchart | |
| Stacked butterfly | Derived Easy | Bar chart | |
 | Kanban chart | Derived Easy | Table | |
 | Dendogram | Derived Easy | Org chart | |
 | Radial Dendogram | Derived Medium | Map chart | |
 | Proportion plot | Derived Easy | Line chart | |
 | Pictogram | Derived Easy | Text & Image | |
 | Cluster chart | Dervide Easy | Scatter plot | |
 | Time plan | Derived Easy | Table + Trellis | |
 | Cartogram | Derived Easy | Viz tips 5Map chart | |
Step chart | Derived Easy | Map chart | ||
Cross chart | Derived Easy | Map chart | ||
Deviation Icicle chart | Derived Easy | Combo chart | ||
Stacked radial plot | Derived Easy | Map chart | ||
Lexis chart | Derived Easy | Line chart |
The Qlik community is full of cool people like Terézia Blašková, who shared how to make a QQ plot with standard Qlik Sense. Have you derived a chart in Qlik Sense? Please let us know, write about it and post a link in the comments!
Oh, and of course I haven’t even begun to talk about all the chart types people made by building extensions to Qlik Sense, but that is a different story for another time.
If you liked this and want to start make new charts in Sense, have a peak at my other posts:
- Sense Visualization tips part VI
- Sense Visualization tips 2021 part V QlikWorld
- Sense Visualization tips 2020 part IV
- Sense Visualization tips 2020 part III Qlik World
- Sense Visualization tips 2019 part II
- Sense Visualization tips 2019 part I Qonnections
Similar tips but for Qlik GeoAnalytics if you are into maps and geo:
- Qlik GeoAnalytics tips 2020 QlikWorld
- Qlik GeoAnalytics tips 2019 Qonnections
- Qlik GeoAnalytics tips 2018 Qonnections
Thanks,
Patric Nordström