Well I've managed to crack at least one cause of this error and make it reproducible.
The problem occurs whenever you choose a value other than 'linear interpolated' for missing values of a line in bar or line/area charts and then you have no values at all for that line + an already pretty 'empty' graph for the other columns
Which is annoying as linear interpolated tends to make people think fake data exists where the value should be zero but at least it's sort-of working.
I've also previously posted about another issue that happens when you turn off linear interpolation so it feels like that's a use case that's not being tested very often Line chart goes under x axis when value is zero - #2 by AndrewMBaines