Which type of chart is preferable when you are dealing with a timeframe?

Which type of chart is preferable when you are dealing with a timeframe?

Select an answer:

1. Line chart
2. clustered column chart
3. pie chart
4. column chart

Answer:1. Line chart

To be more precise and informative, the line chart is the best graph to use when you are trying to visualize data, which is being plotted over any period of time or order / sequence. Line charts do particularly well in illustrating a trend, pattern, or fluctuations in data over the time data was collected. The x-axis of a line chart mean the standard of time (in). The nominal data along the x-axis might include time measurements (i.e., years, months, days), whereas the quantitative data on y-axis might represent the numerical measure being tracked. If you draw a line by connecting data points then any line chart can efficiently demonstrate the behavior of any variable with respect to different times. These two chart types may therefore be used interchangeably, as both of them allow for an easier trend identification, which is particularly important with time-series data, where some tendencies, such as growth, decline, and periodic fluctuations, can be sometimes difficult to find out when talking about the data shown in the cluster or column charts.