Combination charts are extremely useful for visualizing multiple series of categorical and trend information together. They are covered in more detail in Chapter 8, The World is Your Visualization. One thing to be aware of is a current limitation in Spotfire, whereby it's not possible to choose which series share which y-axis scales. At the time of writing this book, this is a feature under consideration in Spotfire. Currently, you can either split out all scales so that each series has its own scale, or you can share a single scale between all series:
- Good for visualizing: Multiple series of data simultaneously. You can visualize bars and lines together on one chart.
- Don't use for: Data that has multiple scales that do not sit well together.
- Pros: Gives you the ability to view multiple series together.
- Cons: As we mentioned previously, you cannot...
