Chart Series

Chart Series

A chart series is the style (such as bar, points or line etc.) used to visualise data on the chart. Choosing a series for a chart will very much depend on your own requirements for the chart. There are occasions however, when due to the number of variables to plot, the choice of chart may depend on which series types support the number of input variables.

The Series Gallery window consists of five tabbed pages in the Series section as outlined in the table below.

Tab

Contents

Standard

Series likely to be called upon most frequently.

Extended

More specialised series types such as Arrow, Radar, Donut and Polar.

Other

Miscellaneous types including Wind Rose.

3D

Series that take three (X, Y, Z) rather than two (X, Y) variables.

Stats

More specialised Statistical series types.

 

The following table shows the Series types available and the number of variables allowed by each Series type.

Series Type

No. of Variables

Data Properties

Function

Standard

 

 

 

Line

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws series data as a contiguous polyline between points.

Points

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws series data as points at vertical and horizontal axes positions.

Area

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws series data as filled mountain segments between points.

Fast Line

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draw thin lines fast by simply connecting all points in your data.

Horizontal Line

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draw series data as horizontal lines between points.

Bar

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws data as vertical bars.

Horizontal Bar

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws data as horizontal bars.

Pie

2

Angle, YValues, Label

Draws series data as slices of a circle.

Shape

4

X0 (Top), Y0 (Bottom), X1 (Left), Y1 (Right)

Draw series data by using your preferred shape.

Bubble

3

XValues, YValues, XLabel, RadiusValues

Draws data as points, each one with a different size or radius

Gantt

3

StartValues, EndValues, Y (Y axis level), YLabel

Draws Gantt chart of your series data with start and end values.

Point & Figure

2

XValues, OValues, Labels

Draws data in columns where each step in the column corresponds to a point in the underlying datasource series.

 

 

 

 

Stats

 

 

 

Triangle Surface

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Label

Draws the best set of triangles that connect all specified points forming a surface.

Error

3

XValues, YValues, XLabel, StdErrorValues

Draws error in series values.

Error Bar

3

XValues, YValues, XLabel, StdErrorValues

Draws error in series values as bars.

Horizontal Box Plot

2

XValues, SamplesValues, Label

Draws outliers and compares distributions using a box plot in the horizontal.

Horizontal Area

2

XValues, YValues, Label

Draws series data as filled mountain segments between points in the horizontal.

Error Point 3D

3

XValues, YValues, StdErrorValues

Draws 3D error in series values.

Histogram

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws series values as proportionate rectangles and classes of interval width.

Darvas

2

XValues, YValues

Draws financial indicator based on OHLC (Candle) data.

Box Plot

2

XValues, SampleValues, Labels

Draws outliers and compares distributions using a box plot.

 

 

 

 

Extended

 

 

 

Arrow

4

StartXValues, StartYValues, XLabel, EndXValues, StartYValues

Draws data as arrows with fixed start and end points.

Donut

2

Angle, YValues, Labels

Draws series data as slices of a circle, with a centre hole.

Polar

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws a polar plot of the series.

Polar Bar

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws a polar plot of the series in bars.

Radar

2

XValues, YValues, Labels, (Angle and Radius)

Draws multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart.

Pyramid

2

XValues, YValues

Draw values as sections in a triangle with lines dividing them according to hierarchy.

Smith

2

Resistance, Reactance, Labels

Draws multiple parameters such as impedances and admittances according to the Smith graphical aid.

Bezier

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws Bezier curves interpolation points on the series.

Volume Pipe

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws values as segments of a "pipe" with proportional volume based on their percentage of total data.

EquiVolume

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws rectangle-shaped bars at high and low prices defined by the volume traded during the aggregation period.

 

 

 

 

3D

 

 

 

Ternary

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws data to show demographic tendencies or the sensitive relationship between differing dimensions.

Point 3D

3

XValues, YValues, XLabel, ZValues

Draws points of three-dimensional data values.

Waterfall

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues

Draws vertical "slices", one for each Z row of the equivalent surface.

Contour

3

XValues, YValues, XLabel, ZValues,

Calculates and displays "isolines" from a custom array of XYZ points.

Funnel

3

XValues, QuoteValues, OpportunityValues, XLabel

Draws a funnel series.

Surface

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws a a surface

ColorGrid

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws a grid of colour cells.

Iso-Surface

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws surfaces of the constant form w = f(x, y, z).

Vector 3D

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws a 3D vector series.

 

 

 

 

Other

 

 

 

Candle

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws Candlestick financial chart.

Volume

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws the number of shares that have been traded over a given period as bars.

Bar Join

2

XValues, YValues, XLabel

Draws lines between each bar point.

High-low

3

XValues, YValues, LowValues, XLabel

Draws lines connecting high and low points at a given period.

Circular Gauge

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws data points as values through value intervals.

Bubble Cloud

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Plots data relatively, displaying bubbles of diminishing size, spiralling outwards to represent different Series values.

ImageBar

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws data as bars with images.

Line Point

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws a line parallel to each axis according to coordinates of points.

Horizontal Histogram

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draws series values in a histogram of horizontal bars.

Wind Rose

2

Angle, YValues, Labels

Draws a succinct view of wind direction and speed at a particular location.

ImagePoint

2

XValues, YValues, Labels

Draw data as points with images.

PolarGrid

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Create a polar plot with grid rings.

Rose

2

Angle, YValues, Labels

Draws data values as areas on a polar chart.

Clock

2

Angle, YValues, Labels

Clock series.

Bar 3D

3

XValues, YValues, ZValues, Labels

Draws a 3D bar chart.

Error Point

3

XValues, YValues, StdErrorValues

Draws error values as points.

 

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