Before You Begin
This tutorial shows you how to create an overlay chart in Oracle Analytics.
Background
You can use an overlay chart to stack data in a visualization providing more levels of details than is available in a single visualization. This tutorial shows you how to create an overlay chart with two layers. You can add more layers with data that shares a common category axis. In this tutorial example, Customer Segment is the common category axis with Sales and Profit data elements formatting the different layers.
You can create an overlay chart with bar, stacked bar, area, line, category, and stacked category chart types.
What Do You Need?
- Access to Oracle Analytics
- Download sample_order_lines2023.xlsx to your computer
Create a Dataset
In this section, you create a dataset to use as the data source for the overlay chart.
- Sign in to Oracle Analytics.
- On the Home page, click Create, and then click Dataset.
- In Create Dataset, click Drop data file here or click to browse. In File Upload, select sample_order_lines2023.xlsx and click Open.
- In Create Dataset Table from sample_order_lines2023.xlsx, click OK.
- Click Save
. In Save Dataset As, enter sample_order_lines2023, and then click OK.
Description of the illustration sample_order_lines2023_ds.png
Create an Overlay Chart
In this section, you select data elements from the dataset to create an overlay chart.
- Click Create Workbook. Click Visualizations
. - In Visualizations, select Overlay Chart
and drag it to the canvas. 
Description of the illustration empty_overlay.png - In the first layer under Related columns, click List to change the visualization type and select Bar
. - Click Data
. In the Data pane, hold down the Ctrl key, select Customer Segment and Sales, and then drag them to the canvas.
Description of the illustration overlay_bar_chart.png - In the Grammar pane, click Add Layer and click Line.
- In the Data pane, select Profit and drag it to Values (Y-Axis) in the Line layer.
Description of the illustration overlay_line_layer.png
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Create an Overlay Chart Visualization in Oracle Analytics
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November 2024
Learn how to create an overlay chart in Oracle Analytics.
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