A charting application is a computer program that is used to create a graphical representation (a

chart A chart (sometimes known as a graph) is a graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can represent tabu ...

) based on some non-graphical data that is entered by a user, most often through a

spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in cel ...

application, but also through a dedicated specific scientific application (such as through a

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computing system, or a proprietary data collection application), or using an

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service. There are several online charting services available, the most popular one being the U.S. Department of Education's

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