In a context of a line chart displaying time data in regular intervals where multiple series might overlap what would be the optimal way to:
A) hint the user that the chart has overlapping series?
B) give the user the capability to visualize all those series? Like spanning the series somehow?
For overlapping series in a line chart, I would keep the traditional line chart but put a label at the end of the graph with a color legend. The legend and label will help the user get information quickly.
Another version of a line chart for overlapping series can be a line area chat.
If you are not stuck on only line charts, I would suggest a bar chart. Below are some examples that you can use.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
There are couple ways to indicate that there are overlapping series on a chart. You can increase the marker radius of one of them. The number of legend elements tells you how many series there is, too. Finally, you can distribute series on a different yAxis, with different top and height properties. Also, in styled mode, when you hover on legend item, other series opacity changes.
API Reference:
http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/plotOptions.line.marker.radius
Examples:
http://jsfiddle.net/whsgpdyw/ - changing marker radius
http://jsfiddle.net/fuq6j4sg/ - each series on a different yAxis
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I have a visualization (below) that is a combination Stack bar and Line graph . I am trying to format the data labels for the line graph totals- so that they all hover above the stacked bar. This works(with default settings) for all of the dates except the first bar (see image below- highlighted in yellow). There appears to be no formatting options available for the data labels of the line graph to control the label position (unlike in the stacked bar).
Any suggestions on how to force the totals to always appear above the bars?
A simple example file is available here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m4qicc5gv5fCmVPiBe2m6THuHGKjacnx/view?usp=sharing
Any suggestions appreciated.
Go to Format > Y-Axis > Show secondary and set it to the Off position and it should look like this:
What's happening is that your line and bars were on independent axes, which makes them align not how you intend.
PowerBI supports Total labels for stacked visuals:
You can now turn on total labels for your stacked bar/column, stacked area, and line and stacked column charts, allowing you to see the aggregates of your data at a glance
Is it possible to have 2 category axis(x -axis) values one with bar and other with line and one measure for both? If possible please let me know how to achieve it.
Thanks
Niki
Multiple Y-axis are possible, but you can only have one X-axis per chart. That said, you can have an X-axis with multiple dimensions on it (e.g. City and State).
Each measure will be plotted (aggregated) according to the dimensions added to the X-axis.
You cannot have different visualisations for the same measure on the same chart (e.g. a column and a line for the same measure), unless you have a chart with 2 Y-axis. Whether this would be a good visualisation of your data is a different matter.
Is there a way to toggle drawCircle on individual data points? From the documentation it appears you can only enable this at the dataset level. I'm trying to draw circles for the min/max of a dataset.
If there isn't a way to draw circles on individual data points another workaround I've tried implementing has been to create a second dataset and only plot the corresponding X index and min/max Y value; every other value is set small enough that it is not visible in the viewport. The only problem here is I can't seem to plot both datasets without overwriting the first dataset's background fill.
I'm trying to get and set the position of a draggable legend in matplotlib. My application consists of an interactive GUI, which has a redraw/plot function that should perform the follow steps:
save the position of the current legend.
clear the current axes and perform various plotting operations, which may or may add labels to their plots.
build a new draggable legend (ax.legend().draggable()) and restore the old position of the legend.
In between these steps the user is free to drag the legend around, and the goal is to persist the legend position when the plots are redrawn.
My first approach was to use oldpos = legend.get_bbox_to_anchor() and legend.set_bbox_to_anchor(oldpos) in steps 1 and 3. However this causes to move the legend completely off the visible area.
Note that I have to use ax.legend() and cannot use fig.legend(lines, labels), since step 2 is completely decoupled, i.e., I don't know anything about lines and labels in step 3. According to answers to the question How to position and align a matplotlib figure legend? there seems to be a difference between these two possibilities regarding axes or figure coordinates. Obviously my problem calls for figure coordinates, but I haven't fully understood how to convert the bbox to a "bbox in figure coordinates".
The even more severe problem I just realized is that apparently legend.get_bbox_to_anchor() always seems to return the same values irrespective of the drag position. So maybe the anchor can only be (ab-)used to manipulate the position of static legends? Is there another/proper way to save and restore the position of a draggable legend?
By looking at the implementation of Legend I found out that there is an undocumented property _loc, which exactly does what I want. My solution now looks astonishingly simple:
oldLegPos = ax.get_legend()._loc
# perform all plotting operations...
legend = ax.legend().draggable()
legend._loc = oldLegPos
It looks like _loc automatically stores figure coordinates, since I do not have to convert the coordinates in any way (eg. when the plotting operations completely change the axes ranges/coordinates).
I have a lineplot with 2 lines on it...they're two separate channels from the same data set. Would love to just label each one - the "labels" options are all about giving a number for each point on your plot, and that is simply not helpful.
Would love to know how to do any (really, all, but I just need to do one to be happy) of these:
plot each against its own y axis and be able to sensibly label that axis with units (and color the numbers to correspond to the data it correlates to)
put a legend on it. I can't figure out how to use lineLegend
just put any kind of (singular) label in the vicinity of the lines.