October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
An index chart is a line chart that shows the percentage change of something over time. Frequently, such a chart is based on a single data attribute. In the following example, we will be using the Belgian population for six decades. The data is a subset of population data found at https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-by-country?tab=data:
|
Decade |
Population |
|
1950 |
8639369 |
|
1960 |
9118700 |
|
1970 |
9637800 |
|
1980 |
9846800 |
|
1990 |
9969310 |
|
2000 |
10263618 |
We start by creating the MainApp class, which extends Application. We create a series of instance variables. The XYChart.Series class represents a series of data points for some plot. In our case, this will be for the decades and population, which we will initialize shortly. ...