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Introducing Logi Charts
Introducing Logi Charts
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Logi Info, Logi Report
v10.0.101 - 2 June 2010
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Logi managed reporting tools offer developers a rich selection of charts for data visualization. This document enumerates the types of charts available, describes them in general, and provides links to additional detailed information. Topics include:
About Charting Elements
Chart, Map, and Gauge elements are used to create charts in Logi applications. The chart elements in Logi Studio fall into two categories: Animated and Static.
Animated charts use Flash technology to render data-driven charts. Users must have Adobe's free Flash browser extension in order to see these charts.
Static charts are rendered as an image and do not require any special browser add-ins for viewing.
Some individual charting elements are capable of producing several different types of charts. For example, Chart.XY produces Line, Bar, Area, and Spline charts. Logi charting elements also give the developer the ability to adjust many aspects of their charts. This results in chart elements having a lot of attributes, only some of which are common among them.
Developers just beginning to work with Logi chart elements will find that it's a very iterative
process and there will be many small changes to be made until your charts are "just right". This is inherent in having the level of flexibility that our customers demand.
Studio includes several wizards that can help you get started creating charts, gauges, and Analysis Charts.
Additional information that will allow developers to quickly get started creating charts is available in Working with Charts.
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Chart Gallery
The following table describes the charts that are available. The Element Name is a link to the DevNet Element Reference page for that element. This icon  is a link to a DevNet document about the chart or map.
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Element name: Analysis Chart
Available in: Logi Info
The Analysis Chart is a dynamic chart set that offers users interactive
data analysis capabilities. While viewing a report in their browser, users can
select chart types and chart data. Chart options include: Pie, Bar, Line, Spline, and Scatter.
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Element name: Animated Chart.Pie
Available in Logi Info
This Flash-based chart "draws itself" when the page is first displayed. A pie chart (or circle graph) is a circular chart
divided into sectors, illustrating relative magnitudes, frequencies, or
percentages. It's named for its
resemblance to a pie which has been
sliced.
Alternate visual styles of this chart, shown below, include exploded pie wedges and the Doughnut shape (continuing the food analogy).
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Element name: Animated Chart.Scatter
Available in: Logi Info
This Flash-based chart "draws itself" when the page is first displayed. A scatter chart uses Cartesian coordinates to display values
for two variables from a dataset.
The data is displayed as a collection of points, each having the value of one
variable determining the position on the horizontal axis and the value of the
other variable determining the position on the vertical axis.
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Element name: Animated Chart.XY
Available in: Logi Info
This Flash-based chart "draws itself" when the page is first displayed and is capable of producing Line, Bar, and Area charts. Cartesian coordinates are used to display values for two variables from a dataset and plot them as points on the chart. These points are used to create the visual representation of the data.
Alternate visual styles of this chart, shown below, include Bar, Area, and 3-dimensional renderings.
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Element name: Animated Gauge.Bar
Available in: Logi Info
This Flash-based chart "draws itself" when the page is first displayed. A single data value is plotted along a vertical thermometer scale, providing a quick at-a-glance indication of its value.
An alternate visual style for this chart, shown below, is the Horizontal Bar.
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Element name: Animated Gauge.Needle
Available in: Logi Info
This Flash-based chart "draws itself" when the page is first displayed. This chart resembles an automotive speedometer or tachometer and provides an eye-catching data visualization.
Alternate visual styles of this chart, shown below, include Bevel and Lens.
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Element name: Animated Gauge.Pyramid
Available in: Logi Info
This Flash-based chart "draws itself" when the page is first displayed. This chart provides a striking comparison of data, using the thickness of its layers to denote relative values.
An alternate visual style for this chart, shown below, is the Funnel shape.
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Element name: Animated Map
Available in: Logi Info
This Flash-based map "draws itself" when the page is first displayed. Developers can use them to display geographical data distributed by
category, regions, or entities. The best usage examples include
statistical display of data, flight routes, office locations, election results,
survey results, or business intelligence such as "Revenue by Regions" or
"Revenue by States". They do not work with zip codes or
geocoded (latitude- & longitude-based) data.
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Element name: Chart.Gantt
Available in: Logi Info, Logi Report
A Gantt chart is a popular type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt
charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and
summary elements of a project.
Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work
breakdown structure of the project. The Chart.Gantt is limited to 1,000 data rows.
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Element name: Chart.Pie
Available in: Logi Info, Logi Report
A pie chart (or circle graph) is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating relative magnitudes, frequencies, or percentages. It is named for its resemblance to a pie which has been sliced.
Alternate visual styles of this chart, shown below, include 2-dimensional charts, exploded pie wedges, and 2-D and 3-D doughnuts.
  
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Element name: Chart.Polar
Available in Logi Info
This a circular graph in which data is
displayed in terms of values and angles. Also known as a "radar
chart", this is an X-Y graph drawn on a circular grid, displaying value trends
on the basis of angles.
Alternate visual styles of this chart include Area and Spline Area (shown below), Scatter, Bubble, Spline Line, Line, and Radar.
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Element name: Chart.Scatter
Available in Logi Info, Logi Report
A scatter chart uses Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables from a dataset. The data is displayed as a collection of points, each having the value of one variable determining the position on the horizontal axis and the value of the other variable determining the position on the vertical axis.
Alternate visual styles of this chart includes point symbols that are circles (shown below), crosses, diamonds, triangles, and "X"s.
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Element name: Chart.XY
Available in Logi Info, Logi Report
This multi-faceted element can be used to product a wide variety of charts. Cartesian coordinates are used to display values for two variables from a dataset and plot them as points on the chart. In a Line chart, a line connects these points to create the visual representation of the data. Multiple datasets can be combined in one chart, using the same or different visual representations.
Alternate visual styles of this chart, shown below, include Area, Bar, Spline, Stacked, combinations, and 3-dimensional renderings.
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Element name: Gauge.Bar
Available in Logi Info
A single data value is plotted along a vertical thermometer scale, providing a quick at-a-glance indication of its value.
Alternate visual styles of this chart include Horizontal Thermometer, Vertical Bar, and Horizontal Bar.
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Element name: Gauge.Indicator
Available in Logi Info
This chart provides multi-colored signals associated with a single dataset , providing a quick at-a-glance indication of value.
Alternate visual styles of this chart include a choice of standard signal images (Rectangle, Circle, Up Triangle, and Down Triangle) or your own custom images, such as those shown below:
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Element name: Gauge.Needle
Available in Logi Info
This chart resembles an automotive speedometer or tachometer and provides an eye-catching data visualization, plotting a single data value on its perimeter. Round, half-round, quarter-round, and rectangular formats are available.
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Element name: Google Map
Available in Logi Info
A Google Map is an interactive geographic map that can be programmed to
identify locations and have other features. The concept is simple: take two
different data sources (your data and Google's maps) and combine them into
something that's more useful than the sum of their parts.
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Element name: Google Map Regions
Available in Logi Info
Logi application developers who have used Google Maps to provide geographic
mapping solutions can take advantage of another Logi Info feature, the
color-coded Google Map Polygons (Regions), for enhanced reporting.
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Element name: Heat Map
Available in Logi Info
The Heat Map charting element produces one of the most unusual charts
found in Logi reporting products. Also known as a "treemap", its unique
arrangement of rectangles represents data and relationships using color and size. Optional integrated sliders can be used to select data relationships and vary chart colors.
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Element name: Interactive Data View
Available in Logi Info
This element is a Java applet that lets end-users interactively slice-and-dice data to analyze and
transform complex multi-dimensional data into actionable information. Users
build reports via an intuitive web-based user interface and can create visual
representations of multiple data points in chart, graph and table formats
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Element name: Text Cloud
Available in Logi Info
This chart creates unique visual depiction of the relative weightings of words
and phrases. Greater weightings or frequencies can be denoted through color and font size.
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