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Making an Observable Plot chart readable: scales, grouping, stacking, axes and labels (docs…
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What this guide covers
For people building bar or line charts with Observable Plot who want readable scales, category totals, stacked layers, axes and direct labels. Each readability rule is tied to a sentence in the documentation. It rests on five documentation pages at one commit; nothing was installed, run or rendered.
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Making an Observable Plot chart readable: scales, grouping, stacking, axes and labels (docs only)
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For people building bar or line charts with Observable Plot who want readable scales, category totals, stacked layers, axes and direct labels. Each readability rule is tied to a sentence in the documentation. It rests on five documentation pages at one commit; nothing was installed, run or rendered.
Useful starting points
- The scale type is inferred from the first non-null value, so convert numbers and dates when you load the data.
- Dates default to a UTC scale, and Plot does not yet support another explicit time zone.
- Plot only approximates text width, so check long labels at the sizes you will actually publish.
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