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Learning Highcharts 4

You're reading from   Learning Highcharts 4 Design eye-catching and interactive JavaScript charts for your web page with Highcharts, one of the leading tools in web charting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287451
Length 478 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations FREE CHAPTER 3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts 4. Bar and Column Charts 5. Pie Charts 6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts 7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts 8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts 9. 3D Charts 10. Highcharts APIs 11. Highcharts Events 12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 13. Highcharts and Ext JS 14. Server-side Highcharts 15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins Index

Plotting a commercial pyramid chart


A pyramid chart is the inverse of a funnel chart, but in a pyramid shape, generally used for representing a top-down hierarchical ordering of data. Since this is a part of the funnel chart module, funnel.js is required.

The default order for data entries is that the last entry in the series data array is shown at the top of the pyramid. This can be corrected by switching the reverse option to false. Let's take a real-life example for this exercise. The following is a picture of the Global Wealth Pyramid chart taken from the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2013:

As we can see, it looks stylish with data labels along each side as well as in the middle. Let's make an initial attempt to reproduce the chart:

        title: {
            text: "The global wealth pyramid",
            align: 'left',
            x: 0,
            style: {
                fontSize: '13px',
                fontWeight: 'bold'
            }
        },
        credits: {
       ...
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