I. Overview
1. Application scenarios
The mechanical bubble chart is used to display bubbles in the form of mechanical chart. When displaying, you can choose whether to display the category name, series name and value.
Mechanical bubble chart is suitable for displaying the relationship between the values in a number of data series, similar to XY axis, to judge whether there is association between two variables, or to find the step-by-step or aggregation of data.
The display effect of mechanical bubble diagram is shown in the following figure:
2. Chart features
Advantages: it is suitable for the distribution of processing values and clustering of data points.
Disadvantages: it's very confusing to show multiple categories in the dot chart.
Note: the gap of each bubble is 10 px, and the bubble with larger radius will be displayed in the middle part of the graph
II. Introduction
1. Insert chart
When inserting a chart with cell elements or suspended elements, select Mechanical BubbleChart as the chart type, as shown in the following figure:
2. Data
Mechanical bubble chart data binding can be described in detail in the document: Chart Data
3. Style
For details of basic icon styles, please refer to the document: Chart styles
The setting items of Style >Series of mechanical bubble chart are different from the basic style, as shown in the following figure:
Minimum diameter: control the minimum diameter of the bubble.
Maximum diameter: control the maximum diameter of the bubble.
Shadow: controls whether the shadow of bubbles is displayed. It is on by default.
Display negative bubbles: controls whether to display negative bubbles. It is on by default.
4. Special effects
For details of mechanics bubble chart special effects settings, please refer to the document: Chart special effects
III. Examples
1. Data preparation
Create a new built-in dataset named Embedded1, as shown in the following figure:
2. Chart insertion
Merge a range cell, right-click cell A1, and select Cell Element > Insert Chart > Mechanical Bubble Chart, as shown in the following figure:
3. Binding data
Bind the chart data, as shown in the figure below:
4. Style design
1) Select the chart, click Style > Series, and choose a Custom Combination. The minimum diameter and maximum diameter of bubbles are 40 and 120, respectively, as shown in the following figure
2) Select the chart, click Style > Tooltip, and check the Category name, Series name and Value, as shown in the following figure:
5. Effect preview
1) PC terminal
Save the report and click Pagination Preview. The effect is as follows:
2) Mobile terminal:
Note: the mobile terminal does not support dragging bubbles.
IV. Template download
Completed template, please refer to %fr_HOME%\webapps\webroot\WEB-INF\reportlets\doc-EN\Chart\BubbleChart\MacBubbleChart.cpt
Click to download template:
