Data Label Bug and Feature Requests
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We’ve been experimenting with the Visualizer plug-in (version 1.5.1) on our site, PoachingFacts.com, and in general are very happy with it and its potential, but we have found some things we’d like to report/request.
Bug: Naming of the “Text Position” areas are reversed for bar charts.
The “Text Position” under the “Vertical Axis Settings” changes the X-axis label positions. The “Axis Title” in the same “Vertical Axis Settings” section changes the title on the Y-axis. Either the “Text Position” fields’ functions are reversed, or they are mislabeled. Please see this example of the mixed-up axis settings.
This is probably due to the labels being named for the columns/rows as seen in the CSV file and not the transposed data which the Visualizer uses to create the chart.
Request: “No data” label option.
We are very happy with the recent update that allows “0” to be shown on bar charts and pie charts. It would be useful to us if we could also display “no data” in the event that data in a bar chart is missing. Sometimes we have a data set from 1997-1999 and 2001-2005, but we have no way to show there is missing data from 2000. Instead it says “0”.
Perhaps this could be done by having the term “nil” or “N/A” in the CSV file show up as “no data” on the graph made by the Visualizer.
Request: Option to set the font size of X-axis text/data labels.
We would appreciate an option to set the font size of X-axis and Y-axis labels (ex: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 …) independent of the other font sizes. This would help fit more data on the chart area. Otherwise the data labels turn into “…” and are meaningless.
Request: Option to set the “sum” of all data label in stacked bar charts.
No means of computing a “total” or sum of all data points within a given X-axis or Y-axis label (this feature is called a “data label” in Excel). This is a feature that would be used by professionals and others using the stacked bar chart view to provide a total value for all values in the stacked bars. This is particularly important for data sets with more than two points and whose points are not shown on a 100% basis. It makes stacked and non-stacked data points much easier for readers to interpret.
Since the plug-in may not be capable of computing this, perhaps a field could be added to the way the CSV is interpreted to exclusively provide a static “total” cell for the relevant axis. There is a style shown on this website that works well for single data sets and would look good on stacked bar charts as well.
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Thank you very much for this plug-in!
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