A method for generating a chart suggestion list using data present in a data table includes providing the data table, one or more data types of a plurality of cells of the data table and one or more statistics pertaining to the plurality of cells as input to a machine learning model to obtain one or more outputs indicating one or more chart types for the data table, and creating one or more suggested charts based on the indicated chart types. Each of the one or more suggested charts represents at least a subset of the data in the data table. The method also includes generating a chart suggestion list including at least one of the one or more suggested charts.