Size and Options

The Size & Options panel contains options to change the chart’s colors, size, axis sorting and chart specific settings.

Using the Size and Options panel to create a horizontal bar chart

Color Scheme

Use this dropdown to select a color scheme for the chart. Most color schemes contain 10 colors.

Tip

If there are more than 10 items in your chart, use the Default20 color scheme, which has 20 colors.

For charts that contain a single color (line chart), it’s possible to select an individual color from the color scheme. First select a color scheme. Then, from the color drop down, select an individual color along the top row. This is the color that will appear in the chart.

Selecting a single color from the color scheme to appear in the chart

Chart Width and Height

• X-Axis Width A slider that sets the width of the x-axis. The value scale is in pixels, and the width can be set in 25 px increments.

• Y-Axis Height A slider that sets the height of the y-axis. The value scale is in pixels, and the height can be set in 25 px increments.

Options for Specific Chart Types

This section allows you to set options that only apply to one or more chart types.

• Normalize

Normalize will change the scale of the y-axis to a percentage of 100. It will look as though the plotted bars and area stretch to the top of the chart.

Note

Normalize is an option for Stacked Bar and Grouped Area charts.

• Horizontal Bars Enable this toggle to show the bars of a Bar chart horizontally instead of vertically. This is useful when there is categorical info plotted on the x-axis that have long names. The long names are more easily read horizontally rather than vertically.

Number of Labels Shown Per Axis

Increase or decrease the number of labels shown per axis.

Applying bins on the X-Axis greatly reduces the number of bars drawn and increases readibility of the chart

Note

Number of Labels per axis is not an exact amount; if the software can find a “nice” (ex 4, 10, 20) number of labels, it will use that instead.

Start Axis at Zero

Enable these options to start an axis at 0 instead of the first plotted number.