I'm using Google Visualization to display a target vs performance chart. The chart is split into a few months, and within each month, I have several departments, each with their own targets. The actual performance will be displayed using bar (column) charts, while I'm intending to have the targets displayed as a line. For now, I've chosen to use a stepped area chart with 0 opacity and disconnected lines for the targets, as recommended by this comment.
The issue now is that the stepped area chart displays across the entire category, but I need it to display only across a single column. Currently what I have is (copy and paste the code in the Google Code Playground to see the results):
function drawVisualization() {
// Create and populate the data table.
var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
['Month', 'Bolivia', 'Ecuador', 'Madagascar', 'Papua New Guinea', 'Rwanda', 'Average'],
['2004/05', 165, 938, 522, 998, 450, 614.6],
['2005/06', 135, 1120, 599, 1268, 288, 682],
['2006/07', 157, 1167, 587, 807, 397, 623],
['2007/08', 139, 1110, 615, 968, 215, 609.4],
['2008/09', 136, 691, 629, 1026, 366, 569.6]
]);
// Create and draw the visualization.
var ac = new google.visualization.ComboChart(document.getElementById('visualization'));
ac.draw(data, {
title : 'Monthly Coffee Production by Country',
width: 600,
height: 400,
vAxis: {title: "Cups"},
hAxis: {title: "Month"},
seriesType: "bars",
connectSteps: false,
series: {3: {type: "steppedArea", areaOpacity: 0}}
});
}
I'm also open to other possible ideas of how to display a target vs performance chart, so other solutions that can also create such a chart would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.