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Published inJan 2015
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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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The error bar chart


An error bar is another technical chart that shows the standard error, which is the standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size. It means that as the sample size increases, the variation from the sample mean diminishes. The error bar series has similar color and style options as the box plot but only applies to whisker and stem:

               plotOptions: {
                   errorbar: {
                       stemColor: "#808080",
                       stemDashStyle: 'dashdot',
                       stemWidth: 2,
                       whiskerColor: '#808080',
                       whiskerWidth: 2,
                       whiskerLength: '20%'
                   }
               },

The same also applies to the tooltip formatter, in which low and high refer to both ends of the error bar. As for the series data option, it takes an array of tuples of lower and upper values:

        series: [{
            type: 'column',
            data: ....
      ...
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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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