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How to Choose a Chart

How to choose a chart? Which chart would best fit the data set that I have? How do I choose the better chart type from Excel? Finding the right type of chart for the data set that you have can be a bit of a challenge. Given a set of seemingly equivalent alternatives, picking one chart over the other can turn out to be quite an interesting exercise. The chart chooser diagram can help you ...

Stock Chart with Scroll and Zoom

Posted on 17 June 2009

Stock charts come in various shapes. There are candlestick stock charts, line and bar stock charts, “Kagi” stock charts, moving average stock charts and everything in between. For a financial service provider how to present financial information pertaining to a specific stock can a critical question. On one hand, if you give too many options, you loose out on user comfort and increase API complexity. On the other, give too few options and you end up losing more demanding customers. ...

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Area Chart with Multiple Overlapping Bands

Posted on 14 June 2009

An area chart (or an area graph) comes in handy when plotting a set of metrics over a period of time. An area chart can also be transformed in to a band or a spline chart so that it represents changes in a metric within a certain band over a period of time. Shown below is an area chart which has been transformed in to a chart with a band (spline) by using two data series one of which is ...

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