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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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Polar area charts

Polar area charts are like bar charts rendered on a radial axis. A bar chart is usually a better option if you need precision, but you might choose a polar area chart for its visual effects.

To create a polar area chart, you set up the data the same way you would for a bar chart, then change the type to polarArea. As in the radar chart, there is only one scale property and axis to configure.

In the following example, we use a polar area chart to compare the volumes of the world's oceans. It is based on the bar chart with the same data we created in Chapter 3, Chart.js – Quick Start.

 const labels = ["Arctic", "Southern", "North Atlantic", "South                 Atlantic", "Indian", "South Pacific", "North Pacific"]; const volume = [18750, ...
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