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pschmaltz5-Regular Member
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October 30, 2015
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Charts to show boolean property values as they change over time?

  • October 30, 2015
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Any recommendations on what chart widgets are most useful for displaying how several boolean properties change over time (i.e. I have 4 or 5 booleans for a given thing I want to track)? I've looked at using Event Chart, Label Chart, and Time Series Charts.

The Event Chart works to a degree using state based formatting to get vertical lines that are red/blue for true/false values etc., but the overall result isn't ideal (continuing to play with properties of that widget to see how I can improve it though).

Label Charts might be better to give a bar chart look over time, but that seems more designed for numeric values vs booleans. Perhaps some conversion of true=1 and false=0 can be done simply for my value stream to get the data to display? I'd rather not change my boolean property definitions to integers (or write some boolean-to-integer service of my own that ends up being clumsy). Appears Time Series Charts likewise will only work if I convert boolean data to 1/0?

Other suggestions on widgets that might be a better way to approach this?

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paic1-Visitor
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October 30, 2015

Event Chart is certainly one way to go, but somewhat tricky to make it look nice.

You might want to go with a conversion to 1/0 and use a Range Chart so you can get a horizontal bar over time.

Label Chart also can do it, but it would look quite different as it would have entries per measurements vs. a 'fill over time'

You may need to do some data manipulation to get a proper data set.

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