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You built the chart in two minutes. Now three people are reading three different stories from it.
What you'll have at the end
One chart type picked on purpose, with a one-line note on why it fits this data
You need
Two or more numbers already pulled together for the request, such as a before-and-after average for two metrics, and a charting tool that can draw a plain bar chart and a plain line chart.
Not covered
Whether the underlying numbers themselves are already clean or two categorical columns are really connected; this recipe assumes the numbers behind the chart are correct and picks the shape that represents them honestly.
Give your KPI one company-wide definition
go there first if the two metrics on the chart do not even have an agreed definition yet, since a perfectly honest chart of an ambiguous number still misleads
Two categorical columns, cross-tabulated before you chart either one
go there instead if the real question is whether two categorical columns are actually connected, not how to draw the chart once the numbers are already trusted
Checked 26 Aug 2026
Part of the Data Analytics cookbook