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Example

 A bar chart is a chart used to compare grouped data. The bars span horizontally across the y-axis and display their values along the x-axis, as seen in the example above.

Spreadsheet Format

Each row represents one category on the x-axis. Learn more about using spreadsheets with Visuals at Use Spreadsheet Data.

 Column 1Column 2Column 3 (
if you want more than one bar per category
and beyond...)
Data Type
Text
plain text or numbersnumbernumber
Contents

The

subjects

category of the data

in your chart, such as countries, various metals or chemicals, years, etc.
  • The value for your subject on the y-axis
  • This forms a bar in your chart
  • The value for your subject  on the y-axis
  • This forms a second bar in your chart
    

 

Customization Options

Data Source URL

This field provides one way to upload your Google Docs spreadsheet, containing the data that will be used to create your visualization, into SHIVA. To use this option, you do not need to allow SHIVA read-only access to your Google Drive. For information on using it, see the Copy a Spreadsheet into SHIVA step-by-step guide

 

Data Filter

  • choose which data you want to see in the chart

Height of chart

  • set the height of the bar chart from 1 to greater than 400

Width of chart

  • set the height of the bar chart from 1 to greater than 600

Title above chart

  • Enter a title for your chart; this field is mandatory
  • Note that the title won't show up in the chart itself

Opacity of area chart: controls the opacity of the area below the chart lines

  • enter a value between 0 and 1, where 0=transparent and 1=opaque

Font name: set the font you want to display in your bar chart

  • It's best to use standard font names to ensure that the font will appear on any computer

Font size: set the font size you want to display in your bar chart

  • It's default setting is "automatic" which is font size 12
  • Note that if you have more than three columns, the text becomes difficult to read after font size 30

Stacked chart?- controls how you want the bars to appear in the chart

  • "True" shows the bars as stacked on top of one another
  • "False" shows the bars as individual sets of data, see the example chart above

Line width

  • set the width of the lines in your chart from anywhere between 1 and above

Size of points

Legend position

Legend text setting(s)

Horizontal axis setting(s)

Series setting(s)

Title text setting(s)

Tool tip setting(s)

Vertical axis setting(s)

Background setting(s)

Chart area setting(s)

Chart colors

Enable user draw?

 

point on the y-axis.

Note:

  • These will next to each set of bars

The value of the data point on the x-axis. This forms the column.

An additional x-axis value for the category in the x-axis.This creates a data set with an extra column.

Note:

  • You can have as many additional columns as you want to create new data sets. For example, if you were creating a column chart of Olympic medals per country, and had "USA" and "France" in Column 1, you could create three additional columns for "Bronze", "Silver", and "Gold" medal breakdowns.
Data Label

The title of the x-axis

Note:

  • This will appear next to the individual categories on the y-axis

The bar's group

Note:

  • This determines the color of the bar; bars in the same group will share a color
  • This labels the group (and group color) in the legend

 The bar's group

 

Note:

  • This determines the color of the bar; bars in the same group will share a color
  • This labels the group (and group color) in the legend
Requiredxx 

 

 

 

Your spreadsheet might look like this:                                        

 CountryGold MedalsSilver MedalsBronze Medals

United States

3212278
Soviet Union2114135

Customization Options

Learn about options at Common Customization Options.