The phrase "a chart about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a chart that provides information or data on a specific topic.
Example: "The report includes a chart about the annual sales growth over the last five years."
Alternatives: "a chart regarding" or "a chart on".
A chart about recent instances of this accomplishment appears on Page B13 today.
Mr. Ashcroft also defended a chart about his strategic plan for the department, in which counterterrorism is mentioned but not highlighted as one of his goals.
A picture in Business Day on Sept. 26 within a chart about the personal finances of Richard M. Scrushy, former chief executive of HealthSouth, was published in error.
There is a chart about European immigration; another compares the 800 euros a Dutch backpacker will typically spend trekking around Machu Picchu to the 4,000 a Peruvian illegal immigrant must find to have himself smuggled into Spain.
Correction: November 13 , 2003 Thursday A picture in Business Day on Sept. 26 within a chart about the personal finances of Richard M. Scrushy, former chief executive of HealthSouth, was published in error.
The Advertising column in Business Day on Monday and a chart about second-quarter advertising sales for the nation's top newspaper companies omitted some sales for Dow Jones & Company and thus overstated the figures' overall decline.
I, for one, have put a pin into planning on building a Gantt chart about upgrading our Gantt charts to TeamGantt ASAP before COB Christmas Day, 2015, after the blue-sky imagineering meeting we're having in the Rhombus Conference room with the thought leading stakeholders from HQ.
Last year, Lapham's Quarterly put out a beautiful chart about famous authors, their somewhat unremarkable day jobs, and the inspiration (and low salaries) they drew from them.
The natural irrationality of fear. Figure 2 shows a famous chart about types and perceptions of fear, from Paul Slovic's 1987 paper in Science.
Correction: January 9 , 2001 Tuesday A chart on Wednesday about President-elect George W. Bush's cabinet choices referred incompletely to the order of succession to the presidency.
Correction: July 27, 2000, Thursday A chart yesterday with articles about the crash of a Concorde jet near Paris referred incorrectly to the precedents.
