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Series

Updated on Jan 6, 2026

The data series are the main components of the Chart.

The rest of the Chart elements play a supportive role for the user when understanding the plotted series.

Series Types

The Chart supports various series types, each designed to visualize data in a specific way. Depending on your data and the insights you want to convey, you can choose from the following series types:

Categorical

Area

Area charts and Vertical Area charts are categorical charts, which are suitable for displaying quantitative data by using continuous lines.

Bar

Bar charts and Column charts are categorical charts, which display data by using horizontal or vertical bars whose lengths vary according to their value.

Box Plot

Box Plot charts are categorical charts, which graphically render groups of numerical data through their quartiles.

Bullet

Bullet charts are categorical charts, which are a variation of the Bar charts.

Heatmap

Heatmap charts use colors to indicate the relative value of data points in two dimensions.

Line

Line charts and Vertical Line charts are categorical charts, which display continuous data as lines that pass through points defined by the values of their items.

Radar

Radar charts, also known as Spider charts, are categorical charts, which wrap the X axis in a circle or polygon.

Range Area

Range Area charts are categorical charts, which represent a variation of the Area charts.

Range Bar

Range Bar charts are categorical charts, which represent a variation of the Bar charts.

Waterfall

Waterfall charts are categorical charts, which display the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values.

Circular

Donut

Donut charts are circular charts, which represent a variation of the Pie charts and are capable of displaying multiple nested series.

Pie

Pie charts are circular charts, which display data in the form of single-series sectors from a two-dimensional circle and are useful for rendering data as part of a whole.

Freeform

Funnel

Funnel charts are freeform charts, which display a single series of data in progressively decreasing or increasing proportions that are organized in segments, where each segment represents the value for the particular item from the series.

Pyramid

Pyramid charts are freeform charts, which display a single series of data as pyramid segments, where each segment represents the value for the particular item from the series.

Scatter

Bubble

Bubble charts are scatter charts, which display data as points with coordinates and sizes that are defined by the value of their items.

Polar

Polar charts are scatter charts, which display two-dimensional data series in polar coordinates.

Scatter Plot

Scatter Plot and Scatter Line charts are the two main variations of scatter charts and are suitable for displaying numerical data.

Basics

Series are declared by using the kendo-chart-series-item configuration components and placed in a kendo-chart-series collection.

For more information on how to configure each Chart series, refer to the articles on the series types. For more information on how to bind the series to data, refer to the article on binding data to series.

The following example configures a set of Scatter Line series.

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Default Series Configuration

You can apply a subset of settings to all Chart series by using the kendo-chart-series-defaults component.

The kendo-chart-series-defaults component supports the following child components:

The following example demonstrates how to set the default series type and labels.