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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 speedometer gauge chart


Gauge charts have a very different structure compared to other Highcharts graphs. For instance, the backbone of a gauge chart is made up of a pane. A pane is a circular plot area for laying out chart content. We can adjust the size, position, and background of the pane. Once a pane is laid out, we can then put the axis on top of it. Highcharts supports multiple panes within a chart, so we can display multiple gauges (that is, multiple gauge series) within a chart. A gauge series is composed of two specific components—a pivot and a dial.

Another distinct difference in gauge charts is that the series is actually one dimensional data: a single value. Therefore, there is only one axis, the y axis, used in this type of chart. The yAxis properties are used the same way as other series type charts which can be on a linear, datetime, or logarithmic scale, and it also responds to the tickInterval option and so on.

Plotting a twin dials chart – a Fiat 500 speedometer...

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