Line charts are a good way to show change or trends over time.

Line charts can be customized to show or hide data markers of various shapes and sizes.

The data itself is daily stock market information for Microsoft Corporation over a period of more than 30 years.

Plotting a line chart with thousands of data points

Only the closing price is plotted.

Example floating column chart, made with line chart + up down bars

Example of line chart with actual and forecast

Excel bar chart example

Excel column chart example

Area chart example