I need to generate a chart like this one:
Specifically, I want to show both a positive value and a negative value for a time period (could be an hour, minute, etc.) and display it like this.
I could have sworn I saw something like this on the Google Visualization API Gallery the other day, but I can't find it now, and am not even sure what this kind of chart is called.
First, do you know what this kind of chart is called so I can possibly find documentation? Second, is there any way to implement such a chart with the Google Visualization API? If not, is there another common charting solution for web that I can achieve this with?
Thank you for your time.
Best Answer
This is called a "Stacked Bar Chart", and can indeed be created with the Google Visualisation API.
Simply use the "isStacked" property (described here; http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/barchart.html).
Here's some sample code (based off the default bar chart example provided by Google and updated to show the use of isStacked and some sample data from your example);
And the results...