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.
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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
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.
I want to layer (superimpose) one column graph on another in Excel. So it would be like a stacked column graph, except that each column for a given category on the x-axis would have its origin at 0 on the y-axis. My data are before and after scores. By layering the columns instead of putting them side-by-side, it would be easier to visualize the magnitude and direction of the difference between the two scores. I've seen this done with R, but can't find examples in Excel. Anyone ever attempted this?
I tried the 3D suggestion and it worked. But the other answer I discovered was to choose a Clustered Column graph and click 'Format Data Series' and change the 'overlap' percentage to 100%. I'm using a Mac so it's slightly different, but the person who helped me with this was on a PC and I've used PC's mainly. What I ended up discovering is that using 90% looked quite nice, but 100% will achieve what you're looking for.
I did the same thing for my thesis presentation. It's a little tricky and I made it by myself. To do it, you have to create a 3D bar graph (not a stacked one), in which your columns are put in front of each other. You have to make sure that all the taller columns in each X cell are behind the shorter columns in that cell on the X axis.
Once you created that graph, you can rotate the 3D graph in a way that it looks like a 2D graph (by resetting the axes values to zero). Now you have a bar graph, in which every bar has different columns and all of the columns start at zero. ;)
Short answer: Change the post score to (post - pre), then you can proceed with making the stacked bar chart.
Long and correct answer: DO NOT DO THIS. Clustered bar chart is much better because:
The visual line for comparison is the same line anyway, you're not facilitating the understanding in any means.
Any kind of overlapping of the bars conceals the area of the post-score, which induces visual distortion. A pre-score of 10 and a post score of 20 should have a column area ratio of 1:2. But if you completely overlap them, it'd be reduced to 1:1. Partial overlapping is equally problematic.
I'm using Core Plot to draw graphs in my app.
I just encountered a problem:
I have dates on the X-Axis and I use a custom labeling policy.
If I only have a few records everything works fine
If I have many records all the labels are near and not useful :-(
So the question is: How can I decide which values display and which not to always have 10 labels, separated one from the other.
Divide the number of points by the number of labels you want and round up. For example, if you have 25 data points and want roughly 10 labels, label every third data point. You'll end up with 9 evenly spaced labels.
The page is
"http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/histogram_demo_extended.html"
Let's look at the y-axis, the numbers there do not make any sense, could we change it to something else that is meaningful?
Except the cumulative distribution plot, and the last one, the rest of the y-axes data show normalized histogram values with normed=1 keyword set (i.e., the are underneath the histogram equals to 1 as in the definition of a probability density function (PDF))
You can use yticks(), see this example.