Working with Automatic Charts

Automatic charts display different types of charts automatically based on the data items that are assigned to the chart.

The type of chart can be any of the following:

Automatic Chart Types
Data Items	Chart Type
One measure	Histogram
One category	Bar chart
One aggregated measure	Crosstab
One datetime category and any number of other categories or measures	Line chart
One geography and up to two measures	Geo map
One geography and three or more measures	Bar chart
One document collection	Word cloud
Two measures	Scatter plot or heat map
Three or more measures	Scatter plot matrix or correlation matrix
One or more categories and any number of measures and geographies	Bar chart

Note: The Roles tab for an automatic chart always contains Categories and Measures. To set advanced data roles such as grouping and lattices, click the Use chart-type link on the Roles tab to change the visualization from an automatic chart to the chart type that is currently shown. For example, if your automatic chart shows a bar chart, then click Use Bar Chart to change the type to a bar chart and enable advanced data role settings.