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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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Creating a wind rose chart


A wind rose chart is created by enabling column stacking option in a series. Though it's not a very common type of chart, it's worth looking at, given that it's based on polar charts.

Consider the following modified code of an example from Chapter 2, Column and Bar Charts, that shows the breakdown of medals earned by leading countries in Olympics 2012. Notice the effect of enabling the column stacking option:

(function() {
  $( '#medal_table' ).highcharts({
    chart: {
      type: 'column',
      polar: true
    },
    title: {
      text: 'Olympics 2012 Medal Table'
    },
    xAxis: {
      title: {
        text: 'Countries'
      },
      categories: ['United States', 'China', 'Russian Federation', 'Great Britain', 'South Korea']
    },
    yAxis: {
      title: {
        text: 'Medals',
        y: -45
      }
    },
    plotOptions: {
      column: {
        stacking: 'normal'
      }
    },
    series: [{
      name: 'Gold',
      data: [46, 38, 24, 29, 13...
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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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