The following table lists the major types of graphs that the Graph bean supports.
Type |
Description |
Varieties |
Value Axes |
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Data appears as bars. |
Bars can show absolute values (bars clustered in groups), cumulative values (bars stacked), or percentages. |
Single or dual-Y |
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Data appears as sliced pies or rings. |
Pie graphs can show a single group of data (single pie or ring) or multiple groups of data (multiple pie or ring). |
NA |
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Data appears as lines, points, or both. |
Lines can show absolute or cumulative data values or percentages. |
Single or dual-Y |
|
Data appears as filled areas. |
Areas can show absolute or cumulative data values or percentages. |
Single or dual-Y |
|
Combines bars and lines, bars and areas, lines and areas, or all three |
No variety; to change the kind of marker that represents a series, set the MarkerType property of the Series objects. |
Single or dual-Y |
|
Data plotted as X- and Y-locations of points. |
You can relate two measures (scatter) or three (bubble). |
X-axis is a value axis; single or dual-Y |
|
Special marker shows stock prices. |
Markers can show open and close only, high, low, and close only, or open, high, low, and close values. Trading volume can appear. |
Single Y-axis |
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Circular line or scatter graph. |
Line or scatter. |
Single Y-axis, from center of circle out |
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Data appears as bars, and a line shows the calculation of the cumulative percentage of bars. |
No variety. |
Always dual-Y; Y1-axis shows values for each bar, and Y2-axis shows percentage |
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Three-dimensional view of data. |
Data can appear as bars, ribbons, floating cubes, areas, or as a surface. |
NA |