**Text channel:** This is close to what I want, if I could put value in a text channel with a text mark instead of color on a dot mark

This is what I really want! Plot has a text channel and it seems straightforward

**Control over field/scale types:** I want month to be ordinal, not quantitative, and that way it won't group into a histogram. I'm really trying to encode a barchart. Not sure if there is a detail or trick I'm missing!

Also, I think there is some bug in Area chart, but think this is a Plot bug I can file. Perhaps area chart doesn't work with negative values.

These are the common views I'm trying to replicate using nocode tools. Note: I will release a nocode tool that meets my specific needs based on what Voyager uses (CompassQL and vega) and integrated with calculang model interactions, very-draft here: https://observablehq.com/@declann/calculang-tools-bad#nocode_viz_tag Independent scales flag on fields might be another request (needed for row facet of formulae), but I understand there is a tradeoff complicating the UI vs. catering for all usecases. +I may not be using Chart Cell for all purposes (but other users might).