Labeling Option for Point Chart

DerekRichards

Hello,

I am using a point chart to visualize monetary data (x-axis) by city (y-axis). This results in cities being labeled on the y-axis in alphabetical order. This not very useful as the points are clustered so trying to figure out which point corresponds with the label is quite difficult. I need to be able to label the points themselves (I do know that hovering over the point shows the city and value but I don't want my users to have to hover over points to see the labels). It would also be useful to choose which points are labeled (i.e. only label the highest 10/lowest 10 cities based on the monetary values and don't label the points in the middle).

ChrisWesson

Derek,

Many thanks for the feedback. It is invaluable in helping us improve the product.

Point chart is unaggregated, so in most use cases there will be too many points to label. It would help if we can understand your specific use case and dataset. Do you only have one value per category?
If so then a bar chart might be better (albeit you may prefer the functionality to style it as points).

As we can (and usually) have multiple values per category, this is also why sorting is only A to Z or Z to A. However, if we offered sorting by value, then which value(s) would you like to see us offer sort by? e.g. highest, lowest, mean, median; all of the above, or did you have something more custom or bespoke to your needs in mind?

Labelling certain or selected points is something we have thought about for scatter plot also, if we can overcome the challenges.

Anyone reading this thread can find out more about point chart here.