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Area chart

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Description

An Area chart is based on the Line chart, but the area between the line and the x-axis is colored. Area charts are used to represent the totals over time using numbers or percentages.

 

You can build single series or multi-series Area charts.

Chart settings

Chart stacked - this option allows building stacked chart where a horizontal point on the chart can show several vertical points of data. The Stacked chart requires two or more Data series.

Examples

Sample data table:

 

Month

Sales2004

Sales2005

Jan

10000

14000

Feb

14000

15000

Mar

12000

9000

Single series area chart

In this example, we chose Sales2005 as the Data Series field, Month as the Label field.

chart_area

Multi-series area chart

In this example, we chose Sales2004 and Sales2005 as the Data Series fields, Month as the Label field.

chart_area_2series

Multi-series stacked area chart

In this example, we chose Sales2004 and Sales2005 as the Data Series fields, Month as the Label field.

chart_area_stacked

Other chart types:

Pie/Doughnut charts

Accumulation chart

Column/Bar charts

Line chart

Gauge chart

Bubble chart

Financial OHLC/Candlestick charts

Combined charts

See also:

Creating charts

A list of chart types

Chart parameters

Chart appearance

Using SQL to shape chart data