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Bubble chart settings

General

Chart title

The title of your chart

Title font size

The font size of your chart title

The minimum value is 8.

Chart subtitle

The subtitle of your chart

Subtitle font size

The font size of your chart subtitle

The minimum value is 8.

Show tooltips

Enable tooltips, which appear when you hover over areas of your chart and show the values at the point in focus

Show border

Shows a visible border around the chart. This border will create a separation between the chart and dashboard elements that surround it.


Legend

Show legend

By default, all charts display a legend if there are multiple groupings in your chart.

The following options are available:

  • Always - the legend always appears on your chart

  • Never - the legend is hidden from your chart

  • Auto - the legend appears when multiple groupings are present

Placement

If the chart legend is shown, choose whether to display the legend outside or inside the chart and where to place it

Outside chart:

  • Left

  • Right

  • Above (default)

  • Below

Inside chart:

  • Top Left

  • Top Right

  • Bottom Left

  • Bottom Right

Number of columns

Specify the number of columns that your legend spans

Leaving the default as 0 keeps your legend on a single line.


Axis

X-axis

Title

The title for the x-axis

Rotate labels

Rotate the axis labels by -45, -30, 30, or 45 degrees—or don’t rotate them at all

Hide labels

Hides the axis labels

Show all labels

To avoid overcrowded axis labels, we sometimes only show every other axis label that should appear. Select this setting to override this behavior and show all labels.

Min

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Specify the minimum value of your axis

Max

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Specify the maximum value of your axis

Steps

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Specify the number of steps to show between your Min and Max values

Log axis

Available when the x-axis labels are numeric

Displays the x-axis on a logarithmic scale

Date format

Available when the x-axis labels are dates

Select how to format x-axis date labels:

  • Short - mm/dd/yy; for example, 03/28/19

  • Medium - for example, Mar 28, 2019

  • Long - for example, March 28, 2019

  • Full - for example, Thursday, March 28, 2019

  • ISO-8601 - for example, 2019-03-28

Data format

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Select how your values are displayed:

  • Number

  • Percentage - Multiplies the values by 100 and appends a %

  • Currency

  • None (no format)

  • Custom

Number format

Available when Data format is Number

Select how your numbers are displayed:

  • 1,234.56

  • 1234.56

  • 1234,56

  • 1.234,56

  • 1 234,56

  • 1’234.56

Currency format

Available when Data format is Currency

Select a currency symbol to prepend to your axis labels:

  • $ (USD)

  • € (EUR)

  • ¥ (JPY)

  • £ (GBP)

  • ₪ (ILS)

  • R$ (BRL)

Rounding

Available when Data format is Number, Percentage, or Currency

Select how to round your values—or don’t round at all

  • 1k

  • No rounding

  • Round to integers (1000)

  • 2 decimal places

  • 3 decimal places

If your chart values are integers, the labels will be integers too.

Y-axis

Title

The title for the y-axis

Rotate labels

Rotate the axis labels by -45, -30, 30, or 45 degrees—or don’t rotate them at all

Hide labels

Hides the axis labels

Min

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Specify the minimum value of your axis

Max

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Specify the maximum value of your axis

Steps

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Specify the number of steps to show between your Min and Max values

Log axis

Enabled when Stacked is unselected

Displays the y-axis on a logarithmic scale

Data format

Available when the axis labels are numeric

Select how your values are displayed:

  • Number

  • Percentage - Multiplies the values by 100 and appends a %

  • Currency

  • None (no format)

  • Custom

Number format

Available when Data format is Number

Select how your numbers are displayed:

  • 1,234.56

  • 1234.56

  • 1234,56

  • 1.234,56

  • 1 234,56

  • 1’234.56

Currency format

Available when Data format is Currency

Select a currency symbol to prepend to your axis labels:

  • $ (USD)

  • € (EUR)

  • ¥ (JPY)

  • £ (GBP)

  • ₪ (ILS)

  • R$ (BRL)

Rounding

Available when Data format is Number, Percentage, or Currency

Select how to round your values—or don’t round at all

  • 1k

  • No rounding

  • Round to integers (1000)

  • 2 decimal places

  • 3 decimal places

If your chart values are integers, the labels will be integers too.


Color

Background color

The background color of your chart

By default, it uses the background color of the dashboard theme. Selecting another color overrides the background color of the dashboard theme.

Use custom colors

Overrides the chart colors of the dashboard theme

Use the color picker or enter a hexadecimal color code to set the color of each column represented on your chart. Make sure to click Select once you’ve chosen your color to update the selection.

The colors are tied to each specific category in your chart, so if the ordering in your chart changes due to the data changing, the color you associated with Login, for example, always stays associated with Login. However, the color resets if you change the name of Login.


Series

Bubble size of smallest value

Specify the minimum size of bubbles

The maximum value is 50.

Bubble size of largest value

Specify the maximum size of bubbles

The maximum value is 50.

Circle opacity

The bubble opacity

Use a decimal value from 0 to 1, where 1 is the most opaque.

Symbol type

Changes the shape of the bubbles:

  • Circle (default)

  • Square

  • Cross

  • Diamond

  • Triangle-up

  • Triangle-down

  • Triangle-left

  • Triangle-right

Fill or outline

Select to fill the bubbles


Drilldown

Use this chart as a variable control by selecting a dashboard and connecting other variable controls to it. Learn more about how to set up drilldowns for a chart.


Annotation

Add a note at a specific x- or y-axis value in your chart to provide your teammates with some context for the data or add a target line to your chart

Show annotation labels on chart

Shows the label you provide when adding a new annotation to the chart

Add a new annotation

Select Add new annotation to create a new annotation

Axis

Select whether the new annotation should show at a value on the x-axis or y-axis

Value

Specify the value on the chosen axis to show the annotation

The sample values below the text field show the required format.

Label

The note you’d like to add

This appears next to the annotation line.

Color

The color of the annotation (for both the line and annotation label)

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