Change Bar Widths of Horizontal Bar Chart

user05242

Is there a way to increase the width of the bars of a horizontal bar chart? Even at 100+% width settings they're still really thin, causing the text labels to overlap, and I need all the labels so I can't simply hid the overlapped ones. There's so much wasted white space it's ridiculous to have the bars be this thin and 70% of the chart be empty space. See attachment for example.

 

Thank you!

ST_-Superman-_

That does look odd.  Do you have a lot of series with null values?  My guess is that you do, and so the chart is saving space for those series.  I would try filtering out those null values and see if that fixes your issue.

user05242

Unfortunately there are no null values in my series. My horizontal bar charts have always looked like this for many visualizations across various data sets and filters. Even if I reduce filters to allow more series values, the bars will only become thinner and more cramped while the white space between them remains the same. 

ST_-Superman-_

would you mind sharing a screen shot of your analyzer?

 

It looks like you have either a user or location id as your y axis, the % of print jobs as your value and then the name of the printer as a series.  

 

In this case, for location 201805, it is saving a spot for every printer name that exists whether that user or location has used the printer or not.  That is the reason for the white space.  have you considered a stacked 100% chart?  Or even just a stacked bar chart?  I think the grouped bar chart is the cause for the white space.

user05242

The y-axis is a date field (yearMonth) and all the products for that yearmonth are shown, so there wouldn't be other products in that yearmonth to save a space for, unless you're saying it's holding a spot for EVERY existing product across any timeframe. This might be possible, but there are hundreds of products and I'm I don think this is reflected in the white space. It's an interested theory though and could be contributing to the issue somehow. I may switch back to a stacked bar later if I can't find a solution for this. The data isn't represented as a comparison of monthly totals, so a stacked bar isn't the best visualization. 

ST_-Superman-_

What happens if you filter the card for a single yearMonth?  Does the white space go away?

user05242

It does go away. In the screenshot the y-axis date is beneathe the set of bars but when viewing only one month the date is centered within the set of bars, leaving no white space below.

user05242

I see the pattern you're saying now. As I add more months, which in turn adds more products, the white space below the last bar of any particular month grows. I always just thought the bars were only getting thinner but the white space actually grows as well. If I use the y axis label as a reference point for the "middle" of that month's set of bars, I can see that there is more and more white space above the "middle", meaning the overall range of bars for that month is being filled with more white spaces/"invisible" bars. It seems like a flaw in DOMO's visualization to handle a series this way, although I understand the logic behind it. A stacked bar doesn't represent the data the way I need so I may have to accept the white spaces for now unless there's a way to remove it.

ST_-Superman-_

You could create a beastmode that would bucket these products into larger groups.

You could always then allow the user to drill down to a view that provides the actual product name.

 

something like

 

case when `Product_Name` like '%PageWide%' then 'PageWide'

when `Product_Name` like 'LaserJet%' then 'LaserJet'

when `Product_Name` like '%HP%' then 'HP'

else 'Other'

end

 

Using this field as your series would give each month a max of 4 bars: PageWide, LaserJet, HP, and Other

user05242

That's a good idea and may be applicable to a few other cards I have. For this specific chart however, we need to display all individual product names for our clients and show them all three months of a particular quarter. If I were still using screenshots for presentations, I could view them one month at a time and take 3 screenshots, but now I'm using the DOMO PowerPoint plugin to directly export cards to specific slides on a presentation, so the final desired visualization has to be accomplished at the card level prior to export.