Why did we build it?

We built Charted for a basic use case:

Turn some data into a simple chart.

It turns out that represents quite a few of our needs. Charted skips the frustrating process of fiddling with options in other programs. It just works. Plus, it adjusts to any screen, automatically updates itself, and provides a permalink that’s easy to share around. With faster and clearer charts, we can spend more time thinking about what they mean.

Internally at Medium, we use Charted everywhere: