Vertical bar chart

Is there an option to change the Bar chart to vertical orientation?

I want to visualize numbers as a vertical bar on the Y axis with the day if the week in the X axis.

Hi @paul_wareham,

There is not a way to change the orientation of the Bar Chart Block, but one thing you could do is use a Time Series Graph. It doesn’t explicitly have all of the functionality you are looking for, like named day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc), but it might suit your use case! The Time Series Graph can display very similarly to a bar chart, and you can pick your duration and resolution to show 7 week days, with data aggregated every 12 hours (or less!):

The only downfall here is not being able to label the X-axis, but the labels do show dates, so maybe this could work for your use case. In the meantime, I will create a feature request ticket for a vertical bar chart. :smile:

Thanks!
Julia

@JuliaKempf would a Vega lite chart be a viable option as well?

Hi @paul_wareham,

Yes, I think do think the Custom Chart Block would work here! I don’t often use it as I haven’t had many uses cases that require it, but I do think it would work here :smile:

Have a great day,
Julia