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Highcharts Essentials

By : Bilal Shahid
Book Image

Highcharts Essentials

By: Bilal Shahid

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Highcharts Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Drilling down the chart


Consider the following table showing the retail revenue breakdown by month for the US video game industry starting from March 2012 to February 2014:

 

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

2012 - 2013

1.1

0.63

0.52

0.7

0.55

0.52

0.85

0.76

2.55

3.21

0.84

0.81

2013 - 2014

0.99

0.5

0.39

0.59

0.44

0.52

1.08

0.79

2.74

3.28

0.66

0.89

This table shows the revenue (in billions of US dollars) for the video game retail industry. In this example, we will plot a chart to visualize this data. We will draw a column chart that shows the total revenue for the fiscal year starting from March 2012 to February 2014. On clicking on the column, the reader will be shown a more detailed column chart showing the breakdown by months for the respective year.

Note

To use the drilldown feature, you need to include the Highcharts-4.x.x/js/modules/drilldown.js file in your HTML after the Highcharts.js file. Not doing so will not throw any error or...