How to approach a column chart when having month and year.
My data is in this format
['Group','Count','Month','Year'],
['A',10,'February',2015],
['B',8,'February',2015],
['C',15,'February',2016]
Aim is to create a column chart which has X-axis as Month and Y-axis as Count. Now X-axis should have Count for years grouped by month.
Something like this -
I tried to simply pass the above data to see what I can get, but I get error.
Any way to assign Axis the values based on year grouped by month ?
JsFiddle of Google Chart Example
just need three columns, something like this...
['Month', '2015', '2016'],
['Jan', 10, 15],
['Feb', 12, 18],
['Mar', 14, 21],
['Apr', 16, 24]
then you can use a DataView
to add the annotations, via calculated columns...
var view = new google.visualization.DataView(data);
view.setColumns([0, 1, {
calc: 'stringify',
sourceColumn: 1,
type: 'string',
role: 'annotation'
}, 2, {
calc: 'stringify',
sourceColumn: 2,
type: 'string',
role: 'annotation'
}]);
see following working snippet...
google.charts.load('current', {
callback: function () {
var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
['Month', '2015', '2016'],
['Jan', 10, 15],
['Feb', 12, 18],
['Mar', 14, 21],
['Apr', 16, 24]
]);
var view = new google.visualization.DataView(data);
view.setColumns([0, 1, {
calc: 'stringify',
sourceColumn: 1,
type: 'string',
role: 'annotation'
}, 2, {
calc: 'stringify',
sourceColumn: 2,
type: 'string',
role: 'annotation'
}]);
var chart = new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
chart.draw(view, {});
},
packages: ['corechart']
});
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>
<div id="chart_div"></div>
EDIT
all google charts require a specific DataFormat
meaning, manipulation is required if your data does not already exist in this format
the visualization library does offer some Data Manipulation Methods, such as group()
which could be used to transform the data into the required format
1) group the data by Month and Year
2) create a new DataTable with the Month column
3) add a column for each Year from the grouped table
4) add the rows for each month
see following working snippet, using the data from the question...
google.charts.load('current', {
callback: function () {
var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
['Group', 'Count', 'Month', 'Year'],
['A', 10, 'February', 2015],
['B', 8, 'February', 2015],
['C' , 15, 'February', 2016]
]);
// group by month / year
var dataGroup = google.visualization.data.group(
data,
[2, 3],
[{column: 1, aggregation: google.visualization.data.sum, type: 'number', label: 'Count'}]
);
dataGroup.sort([{column: 0},{column: 1}]);
// build final data table
var yearData = new google.visualization.DataTable({
cols: [
{label: 'Month', type: 'string'}
]
});
// add column for each year
var years = dataGroup.getDistinctValues(1);
for (var i = 0; i < years.length; i++) {
yearData.addColumn(
{label: years[i], type: 'number'}
);
}
// add row for each month
var rowMonth = null;
var rowIndex = null;
for (var i = 0; i < dataGroup.getNumberOfRows(); i++) {
if (rowMonth !== dataGroup.getValue(i, 0)) {
rowMonth = dataGroup.getValue(i, 0);
rowIndex = yearData.addRow();
yearData.setValue(rowIndex, 0, rowMonth);
}
for (var x = 1; x < yearData.getNumberOfColumns(); x++) {
if (yearData.getColumnLabel(x) === dataGroup.getValue(i, 1).toString()) {
yearData.setValue(rowIndex, x, dataGroup.getValue(i, 2));
}
}
}
var view = new google.visualization.DataView(yearData);
view.setColumns([0, 1, {
calc: 'stringify',
sourceColumn: 1,
type: 'string',
role: 'annotation'
}, 2, {
calc: 'stringify',
sourceColumn: 2,
type: 'string',
role: 'annotation'
}]);
var container = document.getElementById('chart_div');
var chart = new google.visualization.ColumnChart(container);
chart.draw(view);
},
packages: ['corechart']
});
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>
<div id="chart_div"></div>