Is there any workaround to have tickMarkPlacement set as "between" on a datetime Axis? I am aware is not supported by the API but I was hoping to find some sort of hack/plugin.
You can fudge it with the x axis label's x property.
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/jlbriggs/3qtZr/36/
[[update after comments:
if you mean that you want the data points to also line up 'between', then there isn't a good easy way.
My approach would be
1) make sure there is only one data point per axis tick, ideally
2) adjust the x value of the data point to push it to the right in a way that corresponds with the label offset
3) adjust tooltip formatters to correct the date for display
or, 4) just go with categories
However, if you can explain why you want to do this, what effect you're going for, perhaps there's more that can be done.
{{further updates:
After playing around a little more, I found another way to fudge the data point placement, though I am unclear whether you need that.
Example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/jlbriggs/3qtZr/39/
It uses the pointPlacement property.
The catch is that the pointPlacement property doesn't work if there is not a columns series present with as many data points as the line series, it seems.
So this method adds and hidden dummy column series in order to make the pointPlacement property affect the line series.
Not elegant, but it beats having to adjust the data values and then re-adjust them in the formatter.
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I wonder if there's an alternative way of displaying the negative values on the column chart.
The bottom most value on the y axis should be the lowest value. The columns on the graph should grow from the bottom and upward to their corresponding values.
See images below with the current and expected behavior.
Current
Expected
It will be best if you use threshold property:
series: [{
...
threshold: -20
}]
Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/0moe5q2y/
API Reference: https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/series.column.threshold
I'm not into highcharts really, but I've lurked a bit and figured out this little, lets call it, hack ;p
Check this out please: https://jsfiddle.net/4goq1x6c/
If you want the min value to be set dynamically you could calculate it based on some condition and update every 0 element of the data's arrays and the min value of yAxis. (i.e. you could use some variable for simplification)
It's dirty (but not as much when I've looked again on it) I know it, but I haven't found anything native in highcharts docs. I hope it will be useful :)
I am having problems controlling the Y-Axis range of a highcharts graph. It seems like highcharts likes nice round numbers. When my data passes or is close to certain thresholds, the Y-Axis range can expand a lot which effectively compresses all the plot points downward.
Here is a jsfiddle that illustrates the problem I am having:
https://jsfiddle.net/shannonwrege/z8h5eork
The relevant code for this post is this:
chart.yAxis[0].setExtremes(0, max, true, false);
Keep in mind that I don't know what the data will look like in advance, so I must dynamically modify the Y-Axis range. Right now I am using the setExtremes because of other suggestions I've read on stackoverflow.
The maximum y-value of the data in the first two charts is 99. You'll notice that the y-axis is set at 150 in the first chart where the range is automatically calculated and 100 in the second chart where I specifically set the extreme values. The look of the 2nd chart is what I want. So it seems like setExtremes(0,99,true,false) should do the trick, but it actually doesn't.
In the 3rd chart I changed the data so that the maximum y-value of the data is 101, and I called setExtremes(0,101,true,false). You'll note that the y-axis is now back to 150.
Ideally I want the scale of the graph to be capped on the maximum value to limit the about of extra white space. I want to see all of the data, but I don't necessarily care about the y-axis displaying a maximum band that is greater than the max data value. In this case, I would be happy with the y-axis displaying 100 on the axis and some points over but still visible.
Does anyone know how to make this work?
I ended up using the endOnTick parameter to solve this problem. Adding the following line to the yAxis configuration parameters did exactly what I wanted:
endOnTick: false,
Here's the updated Fiddle showing the results.
https://jsfiddle.net/shannonwrege/z8h5eork/3/
All of the charts look pretty good in my opinion (even the one where the yAxis range was auto calculated).
You will need to read the data and then round up to set the idealMax
var chart,
idealMax = 0; // init the max value
// Read the data to find the highest value
for (i=0;i < (options.series[0].data).length; i++ ){
if (options.series[0].data[i][1] > idealMax) {
idealMax = options.series[0].data[i][1];
}
}
// Round the max to the nearest 10
idealMax = Math.round(idealMax / 10) * 10;
options.yAxis.tickPixelInterval = idealMax/10;
Highcharts.chart('container1', options);
chart = $('#container1').highcharts();
chart.yAxis[0].setExtremes(0, idealMax, true, false);
Updated Fiddle
This is what I have so far: https://gist.github.com/daluu/fc1cbcab68852ed3c5fa and http://bl.ocks.org/daluu/fc1cbcab68852ed3c5fa. I'm trying to replicate Excel functionality.
The line fits the default histogram just fine as in the base/original http://bl.ocks.org/daluu/f58884c24ff893186416. And I'm able to sort the histogram in descending frequency, although in doing so, I switched x scales (from linear to ordinal). I can't seem to map the line to the sorted histogram correctly at this point. It should look like the following examples in terms of visual representation:
the Excel screenshot in a comment in my gist referenced above
the pareto chart sorted histogram in this SO post
the pareto chart (similar to but not exactly a sorted histogram) made with d3 here
What's the best design approach to get the remaining part working? Should I have started with a single x scale and not need to switch from linear to ordinal? If so, I'm not sure how to apply the histogram layout correctly using an ordinal scale or how not to use a linear x scale as a source of input to the histogram layout and still get the desired output.
Using the same ordinal scale with the code I have so far, the line looks ok but it's not the curve I am expecting to see.
Any help appreciated.
The main issue with the line is that the cumulative distribution needs to be recalculated after the bar is sorted, or if you're gunning for a static pareto chart, the cumulative distribution needs to be calculated in the target sort order. For this purpose i've created a small function to do this calculation:
function calcCDF(data){
data.forEach(function(d,i){
if(i === 0){
d.cum = d.y/dataset.length
}else{
d.cum = (d.y/dataset.length) + data[i-1].cum
}
})
return data
}
In my case, i'm toggling the pareto sort on/off and recalculating the d.cum property each time. One could theoretically create two cumulative dist properties to start with; i.e. d.cum for a regular ordered distribution and say d.ParetoCum for the sorted cumulative, but i'm using d.cum on a tooltip and decided against that.
Per the axis, i'm using a single ordinal scale which i think is cleaner, but required some work on getting the labels to be meaningful for number ranges since tick-marks and labels no longer delineate the bins as one would get with a linear scale. My solution here was to just use the number range as the tick mark e.g. "1 - 1.99" and add a function to alternate tickmarks (got that solution a while ago from Alternating tick padding in d3.js).
For the bar sorting, i'm using this d3 example as a reference in case you need to understand in the context of a simpler/smaller example.
See this fiddle that incorporates all of the above. If you want to use it, i would suggest adding a check to avoid the user being able to toggle off both bars and line (left a note in the code...should be trivial)
Instead of sorting the y.
data.sort(function(a,b){ return b.y - a.y;});
you should be sorting the x
data.sort(function(a,b){ return a.x - b.x;});
Working code here
What is the proper way to limit out NaN values from dc.js figures?
Let's say these values are checked on the dimension function and converted to a numerical value -1000, when the legal numerical range in my case is [0,Inf). Then, I draw a bar chart (histogram) and set the x axis limits to start from 0 onwards. In this manner I can avoid the -1000 peak, but only if the option elasticX is disabled.
Is there a renderlet solution or another approach that would allow me to use the elasticX option and in the same time omit the -1000 peak?
I do not want to address this by using crossfilter, as this would filter out the whole sample row, as the sample might have a defined value for a different variable, but on Dc.js figure-by-figure basis.
Use the "fake group" technique described here:
https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js/wiki/FAQ#filter-the-data-before-its-charted
... to remove unwanted groups before drawing/updating the chart.(Really .data() is designed for this but it doesn't work for all charts, yet.)
I have a chart here: http://jsfiddle.net/wergeld/bx82z/
What I need is for the stacked bars and the scatter points to line up on each other based on the data X-element (county name in this case).
Getting the bars to stack was simple. But as you can see in the example the scatter points show up in the middle of the chart - not on the same x-value as the others.
I suppose I could create a category list (using the county names) but there may be cases where I do not have all 3 data elements for all counties - how to handle that scenario?
I did great the category axis and it is still doing the same thing: http://jsfiddle.net/wergeld/YckwW/
You were not defining the series correctly to achieve what you were wanting. See updated jsfiddle for what I think you are looking for.
In the cases where you are missing a piece of data for one of the countries you could always use null, which simply means there is nothing to display for that data point. See Missing Data Sample for an example. It is case sensitive so make sure that null is all lower case.