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A detail of a sorted streamgraph of monthly music streams by genre in 2025: colored bands trade places as the largest genre moves to the top, with Hip-hop passing Pop in May.

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Charts Unbound

Custom charts, query formats, and regional conventions arrive in dbt Charts 0.10.0.

20 October 2026 · RJ Andrews and Christoph Mayer

Detail of William Playfair's Linear Chronology (1824): colored lines for stocks, bread, debt, revenue, expenditure and exports weave across one shared grid, crossing one another again and again.

15 October 2026

Dual axes, not dueling

Every second axis has an exchange rate.

Henry Gantt's Chart III, a red-and-black record of about 35 bobbin winders from March to October 1909: each worker's row of daily bars starts on their first day, black where they earned the bonus and red where they lost it.

1 October 2026

You asked for a waterfall

Two weeks later, dbt Charts 0.9.0 can draw one.

The Nevada’s Solar Rise board with orange guides tracing shared alignments across the gaps between charts.

17 September 2026

Charts should be working harder for you

How dbt Charts delivers design.

A streamgraph of seven product flows, from Steady Staples to Holiday Rush, labeled at their right ends

14 September 2026

Charts built for Chat

We’re open sourcing dbt Charts, a declarative language for dashboards, so that even the dashboards you build by chatting with an agent can be governed.