Categorical charts

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As opposed to time series data (data plotted along a continuous time axis – the x-axis), categorical data has no time dimension. Instead, data is aggregated into categories and optional sub-categories. The resulting chart features one continuous numerical axis and one categorical axis.

Categorical chart variants

We support one main categorical chart type, the bar chart. The categorical bar chart has a few sub-variants namely:

Vertical categorical bar chart

• Vertical categorical stacked bar chart
• Vertical categorical grouped bar chart

Horizontal categorical bar chart (top list)

• Horizontal categorical stacked bar chart
• Horizontal categorical grouped bar chart

As mentioned above, both stacking and grouping are supported in the categorical bar chart.