qStudio - Example Charts

Time Series

Format

  1. The first date/time column found will be used for the x-axis.
  2. Each numerical column represents one time series line on the chart.

Day Sines

A sine/cosine wave over a period of days.

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Intraday Position

Position and Costs throughout the day.

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Line Chart

Format

  1. The first string columns are used as category labels.
  2. Whatever numeric columns appear after the strings represents a separate series in the chart.

Multiple Series with Time X-Axis

2 series are shown, one for Sales, One for Costs. x-axis is in months.

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Single Category

One number column generates one series.

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Multiple series

Each column is a new series/colored bar.

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Area Chart

Format

  1. The first string columns are used as category labels.
  2. Whatever numeric columns appear after the strings represents a separate series in the chart.

Multiple Series with Time X-Axis

2 series are shown, one for Sales, One for Costs. x-axis is in months.

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Single Category

One number column generates one series.

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Multiple series

Each column is a new series/colored bar.

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Bar Chart

Format

  1. The first string columns are used as category labels.
  2. Whatever numeric columns appear after the strings represents a separate series in the chart.

Multiple Series with Time X-Axis

2 series are shown, one for Sales, One for Costs. x-axis is in months.

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Single Category

One number column generates one series.

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Multiple series

Each column is a new series/colored bar.

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Bar Chart Stacked

Format

  1. The first string columns are used as category labels.
  2. Whatever numeric columns appear after the strings represents a separate series in the chart.

Multiple Series with Time X-Axis

2 series are shown, one for Sales, One for Costs. x-axis is in months.

2 series are shown, one for Sales, One for Costs. x-axis is in months. 2 series are shown, one for Sales, One for Costs. x-axis is in months.

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Multiple series

Each column is a new series/colored bar.

Each column is a new series/colored bar. Each column is a new series/colored bar.

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Multiple series with many categories on the X-axis

Each column is a new series/colored bar. When there are a lot of categories, some labels are hidden.

Each column is a new series/colored bar. When there are a lot of categories, some labels are hidden. Each column is a new series/colored bar. When there are a lot of categories, some labels are hidden.

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Bubble Chart

Format

  1. The first string columns are used as category labels.
  2. There must then be 3 numeric columns which are used for x-coord, y-coord, size in that order.

Single series

The three columns are used for x-axis,y-axis and size respectively. Notice the GdpPerCapita column has been divided to make it similar sized to the othercolumns so that the bubbles are a sensible size.

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Candlestick

Format

The table should contain columns labelled open/high/low/close/volume
but must atleast contain high/low to allow it to be drawn.

Prices going up

A Candlestick showing decreasing prices after 9AM but increasing volumes of trade

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Data Table

Format

Any format of table is acceptable, all rows/columns will be shown as a plain table.

Many Columned Table

All rows/columns will be shown as a plain table.

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Heat Map

Format

A HeatMap works best with 1+ string columns.

  • Starting from the left each string column is taken as one nesting level
  • The first numerical column will be taken as size, the second as colour.

Country GDP's

The continent column is a top-level branch, the country column becomes leafs.The first two columns are GDP and GDP per Capita which become the size and color of the leafs respectively.

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Histogram

Format

Each Numeric column represents a separate series in the histogram. The series values are placed into buckets and their frquency tallied.

Profit Distribution

Distribution of Returns and Losses

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Pie Chart

Format

Each numerical column represents a pie chart.The title of each pie chart will be the column title.Each row will be a section of the pie and will use the row title as a label.

Single Pie Chart Example

A single numerical columns gives a single pie chart for that column.

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Multiple Pie Chart Example

Using multiple numerical columns gives a pie chart for each column.

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Scatter Plot

Format

  • Two or more numeric columns are required.
  • The values in the first column are used for the X-axis.
  • The values in following columns are used for the Y-axis.
  • Each column is displayed with a separate color.

Country Population and GDP

The first column GDP is used for the x-axis. The subsequent columns are then plotted against that x axis as separate colored series.

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Step Plot

Format

  1. The first date/time column found will be used for the x-axis.
  2. Each numerical column represents one time series line on the chart.

Day Sines

A sine/cosine wave over a period of days.

A sine/cosine wave over a period of days. A sine/cosine wave over a period of days.

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DOT Graph

Format

  1. The table can contain columns labelled from/to/label/style.
  2. If it does not, the first two columns are assumed to be from and to respectively.
  3. The dot file generated gives a directed graph from "from" nodes to "to" nodes with applicable style/labels.
  4. Graphviz Dot MUST be on your command line PATH for this to work.

Alphabet Spaghetti

A directed graph with 5 nodes.

A directed graph with 5 nodes. A directed graph with 5 nodes.

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