View Source

Example

Spreadsheet Format

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3 (if you want more than one bar per category)
Data Type	Text or numbers	number	number
Contents	The subjects of the data in your chart, such as countries, various metals or chemicals, years, etc.	The value for your subject on the y-axis This forms a bar in your chart	The value for your subject on the y-axis This forms a second bar in your chart

Customization Options

Data Source URL

This field provides one way to upload your Google Docs spreadsheet, containing the data that will be used to create your visualization, into SHIVA. To use this option, you do not need to allow SHIVA read-only access to your Google Drive. For information on using it, see the Copy a Spreadsheet into SHIVA step-by-step guide

Data Filter

choose which data you want to see in the chart

Height of chart

set the height of the bar chart from 1 to greater than 400

Width of chart

set the height of the bar chart from 1 to greater than 600

Title above chart

enter a title for your chart; this is mandatory
the title won't show up in the chart itself

Opacity of area chart:

Font name: set the font you want to display in your bar chart

It's best to use standard font names to ensure that the font will appear on any computer

Font size: set the font size you want to display in your bar chart

It's default setting is "automatic" which is font size 12
Note that if you have more than three columns, the text becomes difficult to read after font size 30

Stacked chart?- controls how you want the bars to appear in the chart

"True" shows the bars as stacked on top of one another
"False" shows the bars as individual sets of data, see the example chart above

Line width

set the width of the lines in your chart from anywhere between 1 and above

Size of points

Legend position

Legend text setting(s)

Horizontal axis setting(s)

Series setting(s)

Title text setting(s)

Tool tip setting(s)

Vertical axis setting(s)

Background setting(s)

Chart area setting(s)

Chart colors

Enable user draw?