Configuring time series, line, and area charts

When you have ordinal data with continuous scales and want to accentuate the relationship of one value to the next, you can use a line chart, a time series chart, or an area chart. However, these three chart types are not always interchangeable. Each chart type has its particular utility and advantages. While a line chart can represent any dimension on the X-axis, a time series chart can only show a date or date and time dimension on its axis. In general, area charts support any dimension on the X-axis. However, in Looker Studio, they can only be plotted with a time-based dimension. Area charts and stacked area charts are usually used with a Breakdown dimension to represent different areas, whereas line and time series charts are effective even with a single line. In this section, we will look into each of these chart types and configure them using the Call Center data source.

Line chart

A line chart plots a line for a variable represented...