Spreadsheets shipped the same chart menu for thirty years: bar, line, pie, scatter. Useful — and nowhere near enough. Some of the most readable answers to common questions live in chart forms a spreadsheet simply does not have. Here are ten that Scrolld renders natively.
1. Bump chart — rankings over time. Who moved up, who fell, and when. A line chart of ranks, not values, so a small player climbing from 8th to 3rd is as visible as the leader.
2. Slope chart — before and after, nothing else. Two columns of values joined by lines. The steepest lines are the story.
3. Dumbbell chart — the gap between two values per category. Salary by gender per role, price now versus a year ago. The eye reads the length of the bar between the dots.
4. Waffle chart — parts of a whole, but countable. A 10×10 grid where 7 filled squares means 7%. Far harder to misread than a pie slice.
5. Chord diagram — flows between members of one set. Trade between countries, transfers between teams. The ribbons carry the volume.
6. Stream graph — composition over time, organic and centered. Where a stacked area chart insists on a baseline, a stream lets you watch categories swell and fade.
7. Cohort heatmap — retention's native habitat. Each row is a starting cohort, each column a period since start. Healthy products show a bright diagonal that refuses to fade.
8. Calendar heatmap — a year of daily values as a wall calendar. Seasonality, weekday effects, and that one anomalous Tuesday all jump out.
9. Violin plot — a box plot that admits distributions have shapes. Two groups can share a median and live completely different lives; the violin shows it.
10. Radial bar chart — cyclical data on a cyclical canvas. Hours of the day and months of the year wrap around, so December sits next to January like it should.
Every one of these is part of the Scrolld chart engine and can be driven by your own uploaded data — and because the engine draws each of them itself, they all animate, annotate, and scroll-sync the same way the basic charts do.