# Draw a small chart in each row

Shape / inspect

A variant of [Chart the data](https://meridian.online/operations/chart-the-data).

Add a column that holds a sparkline, bar or radar plot drawn from each row's values.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/chart-the-data/draw-a-small-chart-in-each-row>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet; it would live in Brightfield's view. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#chart-the-data)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Radar Plot Appender`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*Ww2fVZ2NZIMTPt8a?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Spark Line Appender`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*nADv_0hWsk_eBXR6?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`addcol-histogram`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/features/addcol_histogram.py#L31) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`addcol-sparkline`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/features/sparkline.py#L48) (read 2026-09-23)