# Chart Card

Charts are a great tool to visually summarize a large amount of data and are the main recommendation when creating Dashboards that aim to directly show a specific analysis context.

Chart Cards can be used to create different types of visualisations, depending on the objective being pursued. To create a chart card, you start with a selection of data fields (as with all other data cards) and the "Visualization" tab is where you select the type of chart.

Currently the types of charts available are:

* Line chart
* Area Chart
* Vertical bar chart
* Horizontal bar chart
* Stacked vertical bar chart
* Stacked horizontal bar chart
* Mixed graph of lines and vertical bars
* Doughnut chart (donut)
* Pie chart
* Radar chart

Each type of chart includes additional blocks and settings available. For example, vertical bar charts include the "**Dimension**" block (associated with the horizontal axis), the "**Metrics**" block (associated with the vertical axis) and optionally the "**Break by**" block to distribute the value of a metric among the different values of a dimension.

![Setting up a Chart card in Biuwer](https://1704772157-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M3wQp48Ng4g1XyuoV8l%2F-MMv4x2CSvbjlXEQ7VAh%2F-MMv5f2n1Hz3J_CWuNIn%2Fbiuwer-tarjeta-grafico-configuracion.png?alt=media\&token=770f4255-cff9-4e46-a026-0b907cb8490c)

There are many options to set up a chart, and some of them are particular to each type of chart:

* Show legend and in which position (up, right, down or left)
* Show pop-up description (tooltip)
* Label data values on the chart and in what format
* X-axis configuration
* Y-axis configuration

![X-axis configuration on a Chart card](https://1704772157-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M3wQp48Ng4g1XyuoV8l%2F-MMv4x2CSvbjlXEQ7VAh%2F-MMv5zTkar_TQsThcqyk%2Fbiuwer-tarjeta-grafico-configuracion-eje-x.png?alt=media\&token=90bc5f11-01a1-4d95-bf53-eb99ae513d15)

![Y-axis configuration on a Chart card](https://1704772157-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M3wQp48Ng4g1XyuoV8l%2F-MMv4x2CSvbjlXEQ7VAh%2F-MMv67i7DO7I9PBgisGn%2Fbiuwer-tarjeta-grafico-configuracion-ejes-y.png?alt=media\&token=b067a167-e609-4bf8-b950-9c46681da722)

As with other cards, each field has its own configuration, in which you can specify details such as:

* Field labels
* Sort of values
* Formats of values
* Colours and styles

![Metric-type field configuration on a Chart card](https://1704772157-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M3wQp48Ng4g1XyuoV8l%2F-MMv4x2CSvbjlXEQ7VAh%2F-MMv6P90SZvvswoOGKt8%2Fbiuwer-tarjeta-grafico-configuracion-metrica.png?alt=media\&token=4c6caac9-1811-4d3a-8ed9-7c35d3aba402)

Options and results that can be achieved in terms of charts, are very broad and open to specific needs or to the imagination of the user.