Bar charts are used for plotting data which has discrete values and isn't continuous or for tracking changes over time. Some examples of discontinuous data include political party seats after an election, the pricing of a set of items, or the frequency of different categories. If you want to rank or compare values, you might want to use a bar chart.

Configuring the Bar Chart

Here you can find out what kind of data can be represented as a bar chart or a multiple bar chart and what options you have to represent your data. General steps for configuring widgets are explained on the Visualizing Data page.

Data Requirements

You can use any type of Datameer supported data as the label in a bar chart. The values used to plot the y-axis must be numbers.

Appearance-Specific Settings

The appearance of a grouped bar chart can be adjusted through standard and specific settings.

Standard widget settings give you basic controls in order to customize a widget. Learn more about standard widget settings here.

Specific widget settings give you more controls over details pertaining to the grouped bar chart widget. With these controls, you can adjust your widgets to create the perfect infographic to fit your needs.

Legend

Legends can be shown or hidden. All legends move along with the parent widget, but they can be independently moved if separately selected.

Sub-type

The sub-type allows for the widget to be switched between a grouped bar chart to a stacked bar chart, percent bar chart, multi bar chart, line chart, area chart, or stream line chart.

Color

Color settings let users adjust the color aspects of the widget. The top color bar represents the colors currently being used for the widget. Use the color wheel by clicking in a color box and selecting the color to add to that space.

The chart elements scheme lets you decide between having multiple colors or a flat color for the graphic.

Axes

Adjust the scale type for the data between logarithmic, square root, linear, square, and quadratic. The labels are able to be adjusted on both axes in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal position. X label spacing adjusts the width between each label.

Label style

The label settings give you controls to adjust how labels are displayed on the widget. You can control the size and type of fonts as well how they are viewed.

The Combine last records adjustment bar allows for an "other" bar of the grouped bar chart to be created from lesser percentage parts of the data.

Bar chart formatting

Add a shadow to the bars in the widget or use the gradient option to give the bars a 3D look.

Chart style

Chart style settings give you options to adjust widget positioning and styles. Use the margin adjuster to perfectly position the widget within the frame.

Formatting

Formatting settings give you controls to added pre/suffix to labels, add in a thousands separator for data, and adjust how the date can be displayed.

Data labels

Adjust the settings for the labels on the data. Choose a color and adjust the data font size, orientation, and spacing.

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