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Learn Chart.js
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Learn Chart.js

by Helder Da Rocha
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
284 pages
6h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a bar chart

A bar chart displays a list of categories associated with values represented by the length of the bars. To create a simple bar chart, we need a list of categories, as well as list of values.

Let's create a simple chart to display the volume of water in each ocean. We will need an array of categories, as follows:

const labels = ["Arctic", "North Atlantic", "South Atlantic",                "Indian", "North Pacific", "South Pacific",                "Southern"];

In addition, we will also need a corresponding array of values, as follows:

const volumes = [18750,146000,160000,264000,341000,329000,71800]; // 10^3 km3

The data object should contain a labels property, which will refer to the categories array, and a datasets property, which contains an array ...

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