Data Requirements for 2D Charts

The following table outlines the number of columns and/or rows required for each 2D chart type, as well as provides a link to a topic that contains detailed information on the chart type’s data requirements.

2D Chart Type	Minimum Number of Columns and/or Rows	For more information, see…
Area chart	1 numeric column	Working with 2D Area Chart Data
Bar chart	1 numeric column	Working with 2D Bar Chart Data
Box chart	5 columns	Working with Box Chart Data
Bubble chart	3 numeric columns	Working with Bubble Chart Data
Candle chart	1 DateTime column 5 numeric columns	Working with Candle Chart Data
Column chart	1 numeric column	Working with 2D Column Chart Data
Column line chart	1 numeric column 1 row	Working with Column Line Chart Data
Doughnut chart	1 numeric column	Working with 2D Doughnut Chart Data
Gantt chart	DataTable object that consists of 2 columns with DateTime values and 2 columns with string/numeric values; or GanttDataSource object that contains at least one item	Working with Gantt Chart Data
Heat map chart	2 numeric columns 2 rows	Working with 2D Heat Map Chart Data
Line chart	1 numeric column	Working with 2D Line Chart Data
Pareto chart	1 numeric column	Working with Pareto Chart Data
Pie chart	1 numeric column 1 numeric row	Working with 2D Pie Chart Data
Polar chart	2 numeric columns	Working with Polar Chart Data
Probability chart	2 columns	Working with Probability Chart Data
Radar chart	3 numeric columns 1 row	Working with Radar Chart Data
Scatter chart	2 numeric columns	Working with Scatter Chart Data
Spline chart	1 numeric column	Working with Spline Chart Data
Spline Area chart	1 numeric column	Working with Spline Area Chart Data
Stacked area chart	1 numeric column	Working with Stacked Area Chart Data
Stacked bar chart	1 numeric column with positive and/or negative values	Working with 2D Stacked Bar Chart Data
Stacked column chart	1 numeric column with positive and/or negative values	Working with 3D Stacked Bar Chart Data
Stacked line chart	1 numeric column with all-positive or all-negative values	Working with Stacked Line Chart Data
Stacked spline area chart	1 numeric column with all-positive or all-negative values	Working with Stacked Spline Area Chart Data
Stacked spline chart	1 numeric column with all-positive or all-negative values	Working with Stacked Spline Chart Data
Step area chart	1 DateTime column 1 numeric column 1 row	Working with Step Area Chart Data
Step line chart	1 DateTime column 1 numeric column 1 row	Working with Step Line Chart Data

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Data Requirements for 2D Charts