# Creating Visualizations

**Visualizations (Charts) turn Sheets and Pivot Table results into plots you can read at a glance, so trends jump out instead of getting buried in rows.**

![Chat to Visualization quick flow](/images/chat-vis-short.gif)

## Before you start

For most Visualizations, you will get better results if you **aggregate or narrow the data first**:

- **Filter** the Sheet to focus the rows you care about: see [Filtering Data](/docs/filtering-data).
- **Aggregate** or group totals with a Pivot Table: see [Pivot Tables](/docs/pivot-tables).
- **Ask a question in AI Chat** to generate a result tab you can chart: see [AI Chat Interface](/docs/ai-chat-interface).

## Create a Chart

1. **Click** **Graphs** in the toolbar, or press `Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + G`.
2. **Select** the data source: a Sheet, or a Pivot Table / aggregation result.
3. **Choose** a Chart type:
   - Line, Bar, Pie, Scatter
   - Candlestick, Bump, Sankey
4. **Configure** axes and series.
5. **Click** **Done** to create the Visualization.

## Notes

- Charts update automatically when the underlying Sheet or Pivot Table changes.
- Aggregated inputs (Pivot Tables, filtered Sheets) usually produce cleaner Charts than raw, row-level data.

## Related pages

- [Building Dashboards](/docs/building-dashboards)
- [Filtering Data](/docs/filtering-data)
- [Pivot Tables](/docs/pivot-tables)
- [AI Chat Interface](/docs/ai-chat-interface)