Add horizontal bar chart

[aok1425]

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Superset version

Latest one, I'm pretty sure

Expected results

• There is no horizontal bar chart visualization type. I was thinking it would be nice to add a "Transpose" checkbox under the Style tab to do this.

Actual results

No horizontal bar chart option:

Where I suggest putting the Transpose option:

Steps to reproduce

• Go to a chart, then see screenshots above

[qin4zhang]

That sounds good.

[hughhhh]

How to do it with nvd3:
novus/nvd3#357

Example:
http://nvd3.org/examples/multiBarHorizontal.html

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[andrewm4894]

I'm new to superset and just wondering if there is any way to do this since issue was opened?

[bashyroger]

We have interest in this, can it be re-opened?

[chaeron]

Horizontal bar charts are important vlsualizations. Please re-open this ticket!

[shubhamn21]

This is definitely needed.

[xuduo18]

Yes. It is very needed!

[anhhd]

Yes, it is definitely needed. The horizontal bar chart is very essential when we have many categories

[manavjaiswal]

plus 1

[ChengzhiZhao]

+1 to support horizontal bar chart

[chaeron]

I've given up on Superset, which is sad, since I've always been a fan and supported of Apache projects.

There has not been an official response to this request since I made it over 7 months ago. Every other decent BI tool out there supports horizontal bar charts. But not Superset.

Recently I tried to get Superset running again for a critical BI demo.....no dice. Kept crashing, and besides, the install process is labourious, too lengthy and complicated. Put up a good BI demo using Metabase in an hour from a standing start knowing nothing about the product.....and that was talking to a Snowflake data warehouse.

So unfortunately you can close this request, since I think Superset is pretty much hopeless at this point, given the lack of attention to a key feature request (a pretty basic one) and abysmal recent experience.

[maxilirator]

I am in the process of evaluating different open source BI plattforms and one of the criteria is a dashboard with horizontal bar charts. This is really something which is needed if you want his project to be competitive.

[jamesthefirst1st]

Very surprised that a horizontal bar chart isn't available, although boring and standard, it will always be a useful means of visualisation. Git it done team!

[yashk1]

We need horizontal bar chart

[kartikdhar]

+1

[sfirke]

This is implemented in Superset 2.0.0, out now. Use the Time Series Bar Chart v2 eChart and there's a tab to control orientation. Implementation and details here: #19918.

[Vicinius]

@sfirke I just want to do a horizontal bar chart without a time column (regular bar chart), is there a way? Or it was only implemented on time-series bar chart v2?

[sfirke]

You would enable the GENERIC_CHART_AXES flag in your configuration, then use the Bar Chart v2 chart type and then yes you can do a horizontal bar chart without a time column.

Unfortunately I don't believe you'll be able to control the sort order of the bars as of now, that's discussed here: #20885

[olga-pliuta]

Please reopen the issue

[sfirke]

Please reopen the issue

@olga-pliuta can you say more? This was implemented a while ago. In versions 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1 it is behind a feature flag so your admin would have to enable the GENERIC_CHART_AXES feature flag. In 3.0.0 and beyond it will be enabled by default.

[eliezerhilario]

This is implemented in Superset 2.0.0, out now. Use the Time Series Bar Chart v2 eChart and there's a tab to control orientation. Implementation and details here: #19918.

Thanks. I was able to solve with these instructions