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Microreact
Introduction
About Microreact
Introductory Videos
Instructions
New Microreact Release 27th October 2021
Creating a New Project
Interacting with Microreact Projects
Selecting and Filtering Data
Project Controls
Panel Controls
Data Table Panel
Tree Panel
Map Panel
Timeline Panel
Network Panel
Charts Panel
Note Panel
Data-slicer Panel
Managing Projects
Tutorials
How to Save and Share a Project View
How to Link Microreact projects to Google Sheets
API
Migrating to the new API
API Access Tokens
Creating Projects via API
Updating Projects via API
Deleting Projects via API
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Charts Panel
To create a chart first create a new chart panel using the
icon. Click on the chart lozenge to start creating a chart
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Chart Type

The chart type should reflect the data types of the data to plot. For example an area chart will have continuous variables for both axes whereas a bar chart will have a discrete x-axis and continuous y-axis.
A custom chart using the Vega Lite specification is also possible
If you have selected Area or Line charts you may want to go back to the chart type menu and select an interpolation

X Axis

Select an X axis type

Y Axis

Most times it is likely that you will want a plot showing sample numbers stratified by different series of data in which case you should select the series variable you want to colour by and the series stacking type
The following series types are illustrated West African Ebola epidemic (2013-2016) project

None

Stacked

Normalised Stack View

Row view

Overlapping row view

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Chart Type
X Axis
Y Axis
None
Stacked
Normalised Stack View
Row view
Overlapping row view