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Joe Kuan
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Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.
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Revisiting the series config


By now, we should have an idea of what the series property does. In this section, we are going to examine it in more detail.

The series property is an array of series configuration objects that contain data- and series-specific options. It allows us to specify single-series data and multiple-series data. The purpose of series objects is to inform Highcharts of the format of the data and how the data is presented in the chart.

All data values in the chart are specified through the data field. The data field is highly flexible and can take an array in a number of forms, as follows:

  • Numerical values

  • An array with x and y values

  • A point object with properties describing the data point

The first two options have already been examined in the Accessing the axis data type section. In this section, we will explore the third option. Let's use the single-series Nasdaq example and we will specify the series data through a mixture of numerical values and objects:

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Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.
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