Create your first chart
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Add your data
Upload a file or connect a tool that contains the data you want to explore.Identify the file, sheet, or records to use. Include the date range and any categories you want to compare.
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Ask a question
Describe what you want to understand. For example:
Using only the attached sales spreadsheet, chart total revenue by month. Explain which months had the largest changes. If no file is attached, ask me to upload it instead of generating sample data.Replit selects a visualization suited to your question. You can also ask for a specific chart, such as a line chart.
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Refine the result
Continue in the same chat to change the comparison or investigate a finding:
Break this down by region, using the same date range.
Show monthly revenue rather than cumulative revenue.
Which region contributed most to the decline?
Choose a chart for your question
See Charts for a visual guide to bar, line, stacked area, donut, Sankey, and heatmap charts. Start with the comparison you need. These common chart types suit different questions:
Specify units, time periods, and grouping when they matter. For example, distinguish total revenue from average revenue per customer.
Try a small example
Save this sample asmonthly-sales.csv, then upload it to a chat:
Create a line chart of total monthly revenue in USD from this file. Sum revenue across regions for each month.Check the result against the file: January totals 24,000, and March totals $24,000. Then ask:
Show a separate line for each region. Explain why the total stayed the same from February to March.North decreased by 2,000. The regional view explains a change that the total alone does not show.
Check your findings
Before sharing or relying on a chart:- Confirm the source data and date range.
- Check whether values are totals, averages, percentages, or cumulative amounts.
- Verify units, axis labels, and category names.
- Ask how missing values and duplicate records were handled.
- Compare a few chart values with the original records.
Charts in Chat and charts in apps
Use charts in Chat to investigate a question and discuss the results. To build an app with charts, filters, and a persistent interface, follow Create a dashboard from data. The dashboard guide describes a separate app-building workflow. Creating a chart in a chat does not publish a dashboard.Next steps
- Upload and use files to add a dataset.
- Integrate your tools to work with connected data.
- Create a dashboard from data to build an app around your findings.