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  • 1.  Bar chart Question

    Posted Mon November 23, 2020 04:34 PM

    Hello,

    I was trying to create a bar chart on 'Device Type', 'Device Count' and 'Devices per Headcount'. I couldn't display both 'Device count' and 'Devices per headcount' in the same chart effectively due to big difference in scale measurement. Is there a way I can use tooltip option to display 'Device Count' when I hover over each 'Device Type'? Or Is there a way I can represent both 'Device Count' and 'Devices Per Headcount' in the same chart?



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  • 2.  RE: Bar chart Question
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    Posted Mon December 14, 2020 07:31 AM
    You might be able to use an overlay chart to display this data.  Overlays give you the option of showing 2 separate axes (one on the left, one on the right) that are independent of each other, so in your example, your device count axis would scale up from 0 to 5000, and your device per headcount axis would go from 0 to 0.5.

    The one thing to keep in mind if you do use this though, is that overlays use a combination of bar charts and line charts to display the data.  This can potentially lead to a bit of confusion since we tend to think of line charts as representing trends over time.  But with a little bit of user training so that everyone understands this caveat, you should be able to overcome this.