Logarithmic chart

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Thanks to an influx of churches, your music store has been selling organs like crazy. Organ sales are off the charts! Literally. Well, not OFF the chart—Quickbase makes sure all your data appears, but that tall green bar in the image below makes it difficult to see how the sales of your other instruments compare with each other.

Bar chart with series showing disproportionately tall bar for organ sales compared to other instruments

Regular Bar Chart with Series

If you want, Quickbase can change the scale in some spots, to make up for your skewed organ sales. That way, you can take a good look at the bulk of your data and make comparisons. Within a logarithmic chart, like the one below, Quickbase changes y-axis increments to decrease large differences.

Logarithmic bar chart with series showing compressed y-axis scale that equalizes the organ sales bar

Logarithmic Bar Chart with Series

To have a chart display in logarithmic format, turn on the Logarithmic Scale checkbox in the Report Builder. (Learn more about configuring bar, line, and area charts.)

Creating a chart
Getting data into bar, line, and area charts