# Perspective - main differences between time series chart and XY chart?

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**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-main-differences-between-time-series-chart-and-xy-chart/34625 "2020-05-11T12:47:20Z")\
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What will our client gain from us choosing to develop with one chart vs. the other? We’ve been using the time series chart for a while now, but some of the complaints about it have been a lack of grid lines and other minor stylistic things.

We chose the time series chart because we thought it was the better chart for historical data over fairly long time-spans. After 6 months using perspective, I’m still unclear the advantages one chart has over the other.