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Working with Radar Chart Data

This topic discusses useful information that will help you to ensure that your data is rendered properly in the radar chart.

Data Requirements

While the Chart control allows you to easily point the chart to your own custom data, it is important that you are supplying the appropriate amount and type of data that the chart requires. If the data does not meet the minimum requirements based on the type of chart that you are using, an error will be generated.

The following is a list of data requirements for radar charts:

  • The data set contains at least three numeric columns.

  • Each numeric column must contain at least three "spokes" (or axes)

  • The data set contains at least one or more rows.

  • If you are binding the radar chart to a series object, see Requirements for Series Binding for information on the series binding requirements.

Note
Note

If the data available is in a format where each column represents one line, and each row contains points for each line, then you should swap the rows and columns. For information on how to do this, see Swap Rows and Columns.

Mapping Data to Radar Charts

The chart data is rendered using the following rule:

  • Each numeric column represents a "spoke" (or axis) in the radar chart. If there are multiple rows, each row renders as a new set line connecting the data points on each spoke.

See below for an example data set, along with the rendered radar chart.

Latitude Longitude Crime Rate Death Rate Education Rate

0

3

3

6

2

3

7

0

7

4

8

2

4

3

6

4

6

6

8

9

Shows a Radar Chart based on the data listed in the table above.