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Considering Fusioncharts For Complicated Multi-Axis Chart

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I need to display a chart for engineering purposes that contains multiple series of data. Imagine three data series with wildly varying scales.

 

Y-axis:

Series #1: min: 0, max: 1,000,000

Series #2: min: -32, max: 100

Series #3: min: 0, max: 1 (boolean value)

 

X-axis:

Date range

 

The purpose of the chart is to see at how Series #3 correlates to the values in Series #1 and #2. (The values of the series at the time in which the boolean value changes). Most charting solutions make it very difficult to see the values at different scales in comparison to the boolean values. The 0/1 series is stuck at the bottom of the chart and you cant tell if its 0 or 1 because the other series min/max is so large it scales the axis up.

 

The solution can't be as simple as having a Y axis on the left AND right, because there will be many situations when I will need to display MORE than 3 series of data. 8 would be a very common use case. I don't think displaying 8 Y axis simultaneously is a solution.

 

How could FusionCharts solve this problem?

 

Something as simple as a percentage based global axis with one-at-a-time axis display based on button clicks (button for each series) would work I think...

 

Opinions?

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I need to display a chart for engineering purposes that contains multiple series of data. Imagine three data series with wildly varying scales.

 

Y-axis:

Series #1: min: 0, max: 1,000,000

Series #2: min: -32, max: 100

Series #3: min: 0, max: 1 (boolean value)

 

X-axis:

Date range

 

The purpose of the chart is to see at how Series #3 correlates to the values in Series #1 and #2. (The values of the series at the time in which the boolean value changes). Most charting solutions make it very difficult to see the values at different scales in comparison to the boolean values. The 0/1 series is stuck at the bottom of the chart and you cant tell if its 0 or 1 because the other series min/max is so large it scales the axis up.

 

The solution can't be as simple as having a Y axis on the left AND right, because there will be many situations when I will need to display MORE than 3 series of data. 8 would be a very common use case. I don't think displaying 8 Y axis simultaneously is a solution.

 

How could FusionCharts solve this problem?

 

Something as simple as a percentage based global axis with one-at-a-time axis display based on button clicks (button for each series) would work I think...

 

Opinions?

Hi,

 

Please try using the  Logarithmic Line charts from the PowerCharts XT pack in order to dsplaying hugely varying data along the Y-axis.

Ref.- http://docs.fusioncharts.com/powercharts/Contents/?Log/LogLine2DFirstchart.html

 

Hope this helps. :)

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