I am using Highcharts.com to create a Spider chart. My data is normalised (each value in the series is in the range [0.0, 1.0]). It may happen that for a given polyline, some/all of the values are exactly 0.0: this makes part or all of the polyline to degenerate in a line or even a single dot. See the following a Minimal Working Example (I'd post a picture but I am not yet allowed to): I am referring to the Degenerate Case
(the third line). I would like, for instance, to shift each axis so that it displays values in the range [-0.15, 1.0], so that even in the worst case I have a proper area. This would improve a lot the readability of the graph. After reading the online manual, I tried several combinations of offset
, padding
, etc. (with both min and max) that suggest to help somehow, but I had no success.
$(function () {
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
polar: true,
type: 'line'
},
title: {
text: 'Budget vs spending',
x: -80
},
pane: {
size: '80%'
},
xAxis: {
categories: ['Sales', 'Marketing', 'Development', 'Customer Support',
'Information Technology', 'Administration'],
tickmarkPlacement: 'on',
lineWidth: 0
},
yAxis: {
gridLineInterpolation: 'polygon',
lineWidth: 0,
min: 0
},
tooltip: {
shared: true,
pointFormat: '<span style="color:{series.color}">{series.name}: <b>${point.y:,.0f}</b><br/>'
},
legend: {
align: 'right',
verticalAlign: 'top',
y: 70,
layout: 'vertical'
},
series: [{
name: 'Allocated Budget',
data: [1.00, 0.40, 0.80, 0.50, 0.90, 0.20],
pointPlacement: 'on'
}, {
name: 'Actual Spending',
data: [0.00, 0.30, 0.00, 0.80, 0.90, 0.70],
pointPlacement: 'on'
}, {
name: 'Degenerate Case',
data: [0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00],
pointPlacement: 'on'
}]
});
});
I was wondering whether such features are not available for polar charts (I wasn't able to read anything like that in the manual) or how to do that, in case I am doing something wrong. Thanks in advance!