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Horizontal bar chart

The Chart.HorizontalBar component is part of the premium set of chart components, with greater control over their layout and design. The bar chart allows visualising data on horizontal bars, with either a categorical or numerical Y-axis.

Example JSON

Below is an example of the JSON required to define a Chart.Bar component:

{
    "type": "Chart.HorizontalBar",
    "options": {
        "width": "2/4",
        "data": [
            {"y": 1, "x": 55},
            {"y": 2, "x": 75},
            {"y": "Label A", "x": 75}
        ],
        "color_scheme": "Tableau10",
        "font_size": 12,
        "aspect_ratio": 1.2,
        "x_label": "X axis label",
        "y_label": "Y axis label",
        "chart_title": "Chart title",
        "caption": "Lorem ipsum dolor, sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Repudiandae provident ipsa culpa officiis illum commodi voluptas, sequi repellat veniam adipisci laboriosam amet nesciunt nam explicabo voluptate minima inventore, minus sint"
    }
}

Config options

Key	Description
`data`	The data to plot in the chart. See below for more details.
`font_size`	Optional. The font size in pixels. Defaults to 16.
`aspect_ratio`	Optional. The aspect ratio of the chart (width / height). Defaults to 1.6.
`color_scheme`	Optional. A Brewer color scheme to color each bar using.
`x_label`	The X-axis label.
`y_label`	The Y-axis label.
`horizontal_margin`	Optional. Margin added horizontally to the element. Defaults to 3. Accepts any integer between `1` - `12`, `14` or `16`.
`vertical_margin`	Optional. Margin added vertically to the element. Defaults to 1. Accepts any integer between `1` - `12`, `14` or `16`.
`margin`	Optional. Instead of setting horizontal or vertical margins separately, a global value can be set here.
`chart_title`	Optional. The chart title.
`caption`	Optional. Caption below the chart.
`width`	Optional. The width of the component. Only applies when inside a `Section` or `Row` component whose `columns` option is set to `null`.
`format_x_ticks`	Optional. Whether to enable auto-formatting of the X-axis tick labels using SI prefixes (e.g. m, k, M, G). Defaults to `true`.
`x_ticks_decimals`	Optional. The number of decimal places to render for the values on the X-axis ticks (only applies if `format_x_ticks` is set to `false`). Defaults to `null`. To force integer only ticks, set value to `0`.

Data

The data key must be an array of objects, with each object containing the keys x and y. To set the colour for each bar, provide a color key with a hex value. Values for y may be categorical or numerical. A maximum of 1,000 points can be plotted on a chart.

Theming

The colour of the bars can be set in one of three ways:

Automatically chosen by the theme selected for the report. For more details see Theming.
Overriding the color of each bar by passing a color key for each object in the data key.
Setting the color_scheme key to an option from color brewer scales. Allowed values include:
- Category10
- Accent
- Dark2
- Paired
- Pastel1
- Pastel2
- Set1
- Set2
- Set3
- Tableau10

Width

For details on the width key, please see here.

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