Line Chart

A Callable for generating a line chart.

Definition

class controller.callable.outputter.LineChart(self, x: ColumnReference, y: ColumnReference, title: str, x_axis_name: str, y_axis_name: str)

Callable name:

line_chart

Callable type:

Outputter

Parameters:

x (ColumnReference) – A column reference to find values for the x-axis.
y (ColumnReference) – A column reference to find values for the y-axis.
title (str) – The title of the chart.
x_axis_name (str) – The name of the x-axis.
y_axis_name (str) – The name of the y-axis.

Parameters

x

A column reference to find values for the x-axis.

Type:: ColumnReference
Required:: True
Choices:: All columns in the target DataFrame

y

A column reference to find values for the y-axis.

Type:: ColumnReference
Required:: True
Choices:: All columns in the target DataFrame

title

The title of the chart.

Type:: str
Required:: True

x_axis_name

The name of the x-axis.

Type:: str
Required:: True

y_axis_name

The name of the y-axis.

Type:: str
Required:: True

Output

A DataFrame is returned where it contains two columns matching the output conventions of an Outputter.

The data column contains the generated line chart in PNG format.
The type column indicates the data type to be image/png.

Example configuration

{
    "name": "foo",
    "callable": "line_chart",
    "params": {
        "x": "$get_courses.courses.course_id",
        "y": "$final_exam_means.means",
        "title": "Final Exam Means",
        "x_axis_name": "Course ID",
        "y_axis_name": "Mean"
    }
}