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Highcharts Essentials

You're reading from   Highcharts Essentials Create interactive data visualization charts with the Highcharts JavaScript library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783983964
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bilal Shahid Bilal Shahid
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Highcharts FREE CHAPTER 2. Column and Bar Charts 3. Line and Spline Charts 4. Area, Scatter, and Bubble Charts 5. Pie, Polar, and Spider Web Charts 6. Other Chart Types 7. Theming with Highcharts 8. Exploring Highcharts APIs and Events 9. Going Further with Highcharts Index

Creating pie charts with multiple series


We can also choose to show two different pie charts in a single chart by adding two series. These two charts will appear side by side in a single container, although we can also modify their positions within the container to meet our needs. These types of charts are great for comparing the data of different series.

Consider the very first example of this chapter where we created a simple pie chart to show the market share of popular desktop operating systems. We will use the same series for the first pie chart and introduce a second series to show the market share of mobile operating systems:

series: [{
  name: 'Desktop OS Marketshare',
  center: ['25%', '50%'],
  size: '50%',
  data: [
    ['Windows', 88.19],
    ['MacOSX', 9.22],
    ['Linux', 1.58],
    ['Others', 1.01]
  ]
}, {
  name: 'Mobile OS Marketshare',
  center: ['75%', '50%'],
  size: '50%',
  data: [
    ['Android', 77.83],
    ['iOS', 17.8],
    ['Microsoft', 2.94],
    ['RIM', 0.72]...
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