Mechanics Bubble Chart

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

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

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.

Completed template, please refer to %fr_HOME%\webapps\webroot\WEB-INF\reportlets\doc-EN\Chart\BubbleChart\MacBubbleChart.cpt

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MacBubbleChart.cpt