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choosing-trend-or-slope-view

By PostHog. Updated June 16, 2026. Categories: Finance & Investment.

Clarify how to visualize change over a time range before building a trend. Use whenever the user asks how much something changed, grew, dropped, improved, or regressed between two points or periods — "how much did X change from A to B", "before vs after", "start vs end", "week over week", "compare this month to last", "change over time" — or mentions a "slope chart" / "slopegraph". Two readings of "change" need different charts: the whole trend (a line, every interval) versus just the two endpoints (a slope, start vs end). Ask which they want, then render it. Not for choosing a saved insight ChartDisplayType in the insight editor.

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