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Categorical charts

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  • Published Apr 21, 2023

Categorical data has no time dimension. Instead, the data is grouped into categories and sub-categories. This chart type displays one axis of continuous numerical values and another axis that shows the categories.

Chart categorical bar
Chart categorical bar

Categorical chart variants

Dynatrace visualizations provide two categorical chart types

  • Pie/Donut chart
  • Bar chart, including:
    • Stacked bar chart vertical
    • Stacked bar chart horizontal
    • Grouped bar chart vertical
    • Grouped bar chart horizontal