Chapter 5: Interactively Comparing Values with Bar Charts and Dropdown Menus

You now have all the basics you need to easily construct interactive features linking page elements and to produce interactive dashboards. The main concepts have been covered with the help of several examples, and we will now be focusing on specific types of charts and the different options that they provide. More importantly, we will go into additional details for customizing our charts and making them suitable for several purposes, firstly, in order to be good enough to publish and share with a wider audience, as opposed to just for your interactive use, and secondly, to ensure that they properly fit on a page that potentially contains other components, and making sure we utilize the available space in an optimal way. Another important aspect to cover is the dynamic nature of the charts that our users can generate. Based on the user's choice of option in an interactive component, the resulting dataset...