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Bilal Shahid
Bilal Shahid
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Bilal Shahid

Bilal Shahid is a web developer from Karachi, Pakistan. He has several years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and he also knows how to program in C and C++. He is passionate about the open source movement, and his interests include data-driven UIs, the real-time Web, and code optimization. He was introduced to Highcharts while working on a big project dedicated to social media page management and analytics, and since then he has used it in several web projects. He works for Traffic Group Ltd., the largest independent digital services provider in the Middle East, where he works as a senior UI developer. He likes to read books in his spare time.
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Drilling down the chart


Consider the following table showing the retail revenue breakdown by month for the US video game industry starting from March 2012 to February 2014:

 

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

2012 - 2013

1.1

0.63

0.52

0.7

0.55

0.52

0.85

0.76

2.55

3.21

0.84

0.81

2013 - 2014

0.99

0.5

0.39

0.59

0.44

0.52

1.08

0.79

2.74

3.28

0.66

0.89

This table shows the revenue (in billions of US dollars) for the video game retail industry. In this example, we will plot a chart to visualize this data. We will draw a column chart that shows the total revenue for the fiscal year starting from March 2012 to February 2014. On clicking on the column, the reader will be shown a more detailed column chart showing the breakdown by months for the respective year.

Note

To use the drilldown feature, you need to include the Highcharts-4.x.x/js/modules/drilldown.js file in your HTML after the Highcharts.js file. Not doing so will not throw any error or...

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Bilal Shahid

Bilal Shahid is a web developer from Karachi, Pakistan. He has several years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and he also knows how to program in C and C++. He is passionate about the open source movement, and his interests include data-driven UIs, the real-time Web, and code optimization. He was introduced to Highcharts while working on a big project dedicated to social media page management and analytics, and since then he has used it in several web projects. He works for Traffic Group Ltd., the largest independent digital services provider in the Middle East, where he works as a senior UI developer. He likes to read books in his spare time.
Read more about Bilal Shahid