"Bar Chart Race" in Dundas BI

#1

While spending more time on Youtube these day, I feel bar chart race visualization has been used a lot. Here is an example related to COVID-19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MHK6kG1BTQ

I tried using Dundas BI’s “Play Axis Filter” to get the same, and it worked. However it is not as fancy. Scripting would definitely help to improve it but I haven’t got that far yet.

Another thought - wouldn’t it be great if “Play Axis Filter” gets enhanced in the future and comes with more easy-to-use settings? For example, more properties around data animation.

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#2

A feature request has been created on your behalf for this - issue 84352.

#3

I remember asking for something similar before. The problem is that the play axis displays, changes filter, reloads, displays etc. This means that each time it changes filter it pauses.
There should be some sort of preloading in the background so the chart knows all the values, or at least some, in advance so it can just change the display without having to reload the new filters.
This would be great for @jian’s case, as well as scatter charts where people do these things too.

#4

Hi

The animation settings can be found on the visualization instead, in the Look tab. For charts, you would normally want to disable the “Animate In Stages” option, which when enabled can produce multiple successive animations for every data change with axes animated separately from data points.

Preloading the data is one enhancement under consideration to allow for changing the data faster, but what other kinds of properties around data animation would you be thinking of?