Area chart

Description

An Area chart is based on the Line chart, but the area between the line and the x-axis is colored. Area charts are used to represent the totals over time using numbers or percentages.

You can build single series or multi-series Area charts.

Chart settings

•Chart stacked - this option allows building stacked chart where a horizontal point on the chart can show several vertical points of data. The Stacked chart requires two or more Data series.

Examples

Sample data table:

Single series area chart

In this example, we chose Sales2005 as the Data Series field, Month as the Label field.

Multi-series area chart

In this example, we chose Sales2004 and Sales2005 as the Data Series fields, Month as the Label field.

Multi-series stacked area chart

In this example, we chose Sales2004 and Sales2005 as the Data Series fields, Month as the Label field.

Other chart types:

•Pie/Doughnut charts

•Accumulation chart

•Column/Bar charts

•Line chart

•Gauge chart

•Bubble chart

•Financial OHLC/Candlestick charts

•Combined charts

See also:

•Creating charts

•A list of chart types

•Chart parameters

•Chart appearance

•Using SQL to shape chart data