# Native charting modules Have a look at the [Comparison of Charting modules][1]. Here is a quote from it: > There are a variety of modules that facilitate the creation of charts. When it comes to charting in Drupal, the saying "There's a module for it" doesn't really apply. In this case, it's more accurate to say, "There are plenty of modules for it" ... > These modules support for various charting libraries that may be desirable based on a site's desired appearance, feature-set, and licensing needs. Here is the shortlist of 'native' charting modules, for which **at least 1 official release** exist (quote from that comparison also): - [Forena][2] facilitates the creation of charts by using the [SVG Graph][3] library. Forena does not depend on <a href="/project/views" target="_blank">Views</a> for creating charts, however it can be used as an extra views style plugin. - [Google Chart Tools][4] provides a simple API to build interactive SVG charts, using the [Google Chart Tools][4]. - [Chart][5] currently only supports the deprecated [Google Chart Tools: Image Charts][6], which is deprecated as of April 20, 2015. Though issues [#2371567][7], [#2371075][8] and [#2368793][9] are about addressing that. It is the most commonly used charting module today (over 25K reported installs, which is more then double of all other native charting modules together). - [Charts][10] (not to be confused with the charting module with namespace [chart][5] !!!) provides an API that can be used as a stand-alone API, and the integration with <a href="/project/views" target="_blank">Views</a> supports building charts with no coding. - [Charts and Graphs][11], which is an API for developers. It can be extended by third-party modules that want to add their own charting implementations. It does nothing by itself. It should only be installed if some other module requires it. [Views Charts][12] is one of the modules using it. - [Flot][13] provides an API and views integration for using the [Flot][14] graphing library. **Note**: there are quite a few additional 'native' charting modules, though they do not have an official release (yet), only dev, alfa or beta versions. # Forena showcase Have a look at my answer to "https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/180421/views-table-with-taxonomy-terms-for-columns-and-rows/180603#180603", which details how I once created a ***crosstab*** report (using the [Forena][2] module) that looked like so: [![enter image description here][15]][15] Then look at the video demo "[How to create Crosstab Tables and (related) charts][16]" to get an idea what it takes to create a chart from such crosstab tables. **Disclosure**: I'm the author of the comparison and co-maintainer of the [Charts][10], [Chart][5] and [Forena][2]. [1]: https://www.drupal.org/node/2363985 [2]: https://www.drupal.org/project/forena [3]: http://www.goat1000.com/svggraph.php [4]: http://code.google.com/apis/chart [5]: https://www.drupal.org/project/chart [6]: https://developers.google.com/chart/image/ [7]: https://www.drupal.org/node/2371567 [8]: https://www.drupal.org/node/2371075 [9]: https://www.drupal.org/node/2368793 [10]: https://www.drupal.org/project/charts [11]: https://www.drupal.org/project/charts_graphs [12]: https://www.drupal.org/project/views_charts [13]: https://www.drupal.org/project/flot [14]: http://code.google.com/p/flot [15]: https://i.sstatic.net/mYoY1.png [16]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZY5T3kPXZc