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Y Area - Datetime Axis — Area chart. X is 'Order Date', bucketed by month. Y is sales. Each year is its own color and area.

Y Area chart of Sales, grouped by bucket("Order Date", 'M'), split by bucket("Order Date", 'Y'), with 2 computed expression columns.

Y Area - Datetime Axis — Area chart. X is 'Order Date', bucketed by month. Y is sales. Each year is its own color and area.: Y Area chart of Sales, grouped by bucket("Order Date", 'M'), split by bucket("Order Date", 'Y'), with 2 computed expression columns.

Data

Programmatic variations on the Superstore retail sales dataset, showing the flexibility of Perspective's configuration: the same table re-queried as data grids, pivot tables and charts by changing only the viewer's JSON config.

Loaded from /data/superstore.lz4.arrow as arrow into the perspective-server engine.

Configuration

This example is a saved <perspective-viewer> workspace. Pass this JSON to viewer.restoreWorkspace() to reproduce it over the same table:

{
    "layout": {
        "type": "tab-layout",
        "tabs": [
            "p0"
        ],
        "selected": 0
    },
    "panels": {
        "p0": {
            "table": "",
            "title": "Y Area - Datetime Axis",
            "plugin": "Y Area",
            "group_by": [
                "bucket(\"Order Date\", 'M')"
            ],
            "split_by": [
                "bucket(\"Order Date\", 'Y')"
            ],
            "expressions": {
                "bucket(\"Order Date\", 'M')": "bucket(\"Order Date\", 'M')",
                "bucket(\"Order Date\", 'Y')": "bucket(\"Order Date\", 'Y')"
            },
            "columns": [
                "Sales"
            ],
            "theme": null
        }
    },
    "active": "p0"
}

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