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# Bird draws charts inline

> When a question is better answered with a visual, Bird renders bar, line, and scatter plots directly in the chat — axes and units pulled from the source data.

**Shipped 2026-04-24 · AI**

Some answers want a sentence. Others want a chart. Bird now decides per
question, and when a chart is the right answer, it renders one directly
in the chat.

## What's new

* **Bar, line, and scatter plots** rendered inline in Bird's response.
* **Axes labelled from the source** — column names, unit annotations,
  and units of measurement carry through from your spreadsheet, note,
  or attachment so the chart is publishable-quality, not just
  illustrative.
* **Question-driven** — Bird only draws a chart when the question
  benefits from one. A summary question gets prose; a "plot column F
  against column B" question gets a scatter plot. You can also ask
  explicitly: "show me a line chart of...".
* **Editable through follow-up** — refine the chart by replying.
  "Switch the x-axis to log scale", "filter to samples after Day 5",
  "make it a bar chart instead" — Bird re-renders.

## Why this matters

Charts are the single most efficient way to spot a trend or an outlier
in tabular data. Until now, getting one meant opening a separate tool,
formatting the data, and rebuilding the visual every time. Inline
charts collapse that loop into the chat where you were already asking.

## Related docs

* [Bird, your AI assistant](/ai-and-search/bird-ai-assistant)
* [Spreadsheets in Bird](/changelog/2026-04-24-spreadsheets-in-bird)