Re: Custom Labels in Scatter Plot

[asgallant]

The only way to get the axis values you want for your ratings would be to put them on the x-axis (effectively turning your chart on its side).  Then you could use a LineChart with the lineWidth option set to 0 and the pointSize option set to something larger than 0 to simulate a ScatterChart.  See an example here: http://jsfiddle.net/asgallant/Y6GJ9/

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:38:46 AM UTC-5, Brian Pletcher wrote:

I have a somewhat unusual graphing need, and am hoping that the Google Visualization API might be able to do the trick. My X axis is time, and my Y axis is a "rating" (a continuous variable). However, this rating is always expressed to users as a non-numeric value (e.g. Rating value 1 = "A1", 2 = "A2", 3 = "B1" etc.) Is there any way to show these string values rather than the rating, but graph based on the numeric equivalency?

My initial look at the API revealed that only a continuous variable can be used on both axes of a scatter plot, and that the axis values are generated automatically, but I'm hoping there's some clever way around that. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Brian Pletcher]

Hm, that's what I was afraid of! I guess I can try just drawing the chart myself with a <canvas>, not quite as slick but it'll be good practice. Thanks for the response!