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  • Number Chart Encoding Channels
  • Use Cases
  • Customization Options
  • Examples
  • Limitations

Number charts display a single aggregated value from a data field.

Number charts only require a single encoding channel, called Number. This is an aggregation encoding channel which aggregates based on the field and aggregation method chosen, and displays the result in the chart.

Number charts are useful for highlighting grand totals or values which represent the overall state of your data. For example, a store may use a number chart to represent the total dollar value of all sales. Additionally, a hotel chain may use a number chart to represent the average number of vacant rooms across all hotels, or apply a filter to see the total number of vacant rooms in a select region.

You can style the number that your chart displays with conditional formatting rules. These rules are applied dynamically: if your number changes to match or stop matching a condition you define, its styling updates.

To learn how to use conditional formatting rules, see the Conditional Formatting customization option.

The following chart visualizes sales data from a mock office supply store. Each document in the collection represents an individual sale, which contains information on the item(s) sold and the purchaser. This number chart shows the total sum of all sales stored in the collection:

Sales number chart example
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The Number field of items.price tells Atlas Charts to aggregate the field based on the selected method of $sum. Since items is an array, we have to select an array reduction option before we can aggregate. In this example, we choose Unwind Array, which creates a new document for each element in the items array. Atlas Charts sums the price of each newly created document and displays the value in the visualization.

The following chart visualizes workout data. Each document in the collection represents an individual workout activity, which contains information on the type of activity performed and the amount of calories burned during the workout. This number chart shows the maximum calories burned across all swimming and surfing workouts:

Workout number chart example
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The Number field of Calories Burned (kCal) tells Atlas Charts to aggregate the field based on the selected method of $max.

We have applied a filter to this chart to restrict the documents Atlas Charts examines to only those with an Activity Type of Surf, Swim, or Indoor Swim. Atlas Charts determines the maximum value of the Calories Burned (kCal) field across all documents which match this criteria and displays the value in the visualization.

The maximum query response size for a number chart is 5000 documents.

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