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[#18] Explain what axes are and how we detect their types
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vitorbaptista committed Mar 10, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -65,3 +65,22 @@ in 2000 or 2010. In techie terms, it'll be ```State == "California" AND (Year

Currently you can't exclude data, only include. There's no way to negate a
filter (to all states that are not California, for example).

### Axes

This defines what column will be plotted in each axis. Line and bar charts have
two axes, Y and X; pie charts only have one, Y.

As long as the DataStore interpreted the column types correctly, the charts
will work with any kind of data (numeric, text, or date). To check if this is
the case, check the ```Upload log``` in the ```Manage resource```'s
```DataStore``` tab. You should see something like:

```
Determined headers and types: [{'type': u'text', 'id': u'State'}, {'type':
u'numeric', 'id': u'Year'}, {'type': u'numeric', 'id': u'Population'}]
```

Just confirm that the types defined are correct. If not, try to understand why
and fix it, as the charts created might behave incorrectly. The DataStore's
documentation might help you.

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