Creating Line Between Min and Max in Tableau (Barbell Chart) - tableau-desktop

I'm creating a chart showing the minimum and maximum salary by level within a company. I have both of these measures displaying as circles. Is it possible to create a bar/line connecting them so that users can clearly see how large the ranges are for each level? I've seen some barbell chart tutorials, but I think I'd need significant data wrangling to get data in a structure that would work for that.
Sidenote: My goal is really just to show the span, so I also thought a stacked bar/column chart could work, with min(salary) as the bottom bar, which I'd make white/transparent, and max(salary)-min(salary) as the top bar, but I could only get them to stack on top of each other when using dual axis.

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How Do I Keep Bar Width the Same Across Multiple Charts?

Suppose I want to create two charts with horizontal bars. The names of the objects are listed on the y-axis and the horizontal bars represents some quantity. The first chart has 100 items and the second chart has 5 items.
When I create the charts the horizontal bars have different widths. I'd like the bars to be the same width across all of my charts.
I know I can try different values for the height parameter to the AddShape function. But that seems time-consuming and unreliable since the number of items can change. I'd like to do something like:
Chart.BarWidth = 10
The "thickness" of each bar will be primarily determined by the number of data points that need to be plotted. The more data points to plot, the thinner the bars will be. There are some options to further tweak them, such as IChartGroup.GapWidth, and you're welcome to try to adjust this so that both charts match. But I suspect that it will be very difficult to do this reliably, particularly if the number of plotted points is expected to change over time.
To maintain the same bar thickness for multiple charts, I think your best option will be to ensure both charts' series refer to the same size range. So if your first chart refers to 100 cells, have your second chart refer to 100 cells, even if only 5 are populated with values. The empty cells should not plot but will still take up space and therefore maintain consistent bar thicknesses between your two charts.

Highcharts - bubble diagram need smaller bubbles infront of bigger

We are using the Highchart bubble diagram, however when bubble x and y are on the same place in the diagram and bubble y is smaller there is no way to neither see nor much less click the smaller bubble.
Is there any way to plot the bigger bubbles first and then plot the smaller ones on top? Or a setting which says that smaller ones always are on top of the bigger ones?
Just sort the series data in descending order and pass it to the highcharts.
So that, the bigger bubbles will be plotted first and then the smaller ones, thereby the user will be able to hover on smaller as well as bigger bubbles.
Tried this in my project, and it's working perfectly fine !

Labels on Grid lines in HighchartsJS

I'm using highcharts and trying to add labels to the grid lines of a polar chart, however, I can only add labels to the first axis (which is the y-axis in the cartesian coordinate system).
Polar charts are not well covered (as well as labels on grids) in the highcharts docs. My current approach is placing the labels manually on the correct positions, which will get cumbersome due to dynamic number of categories and sizes of my chart. Additionally, exporting the chart will not support labels anymore.
Background: Let's assume I am selling tickets for clubbing from Monday to Friday (no weekends, bad choice) for the clubs Green, Black, and Blue. Now, I want to know which club performed best on each day, and also how many tickets are sold in total. Therefore, I'd like to apply different scalings to each axis as attached (manually manipulated). I'm currently normalizing the ticket sales for each day to 0…1 which does the job for comparing each single day, but I can't apply the different labels to the axis.
One way might be to add more panes (with startAngle correction) and yAxes with different scales, so dataLabels are showing as in your image.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/6b9m7Lvb/
Problem - each yAxis can have only a single pane, each series can have only a single yAxis, so there is one scale for a series - no matter what category.
Another way could be to do the same, but have all yAxes linked to each other, so scale is the same for all. Next it is possible to change axis labels and tooltip display, to match your image.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/6b9m7Lvb/1/

How to depict a radar chart in iOS?

I'm currently developing my iOS app and want to depict a graph whose shape is a circle like pie chart, but its radius is dependent on each specific values. Sorry I don't know what the name of such chart is, but I'm sure every sane baseball fans or any sports fans I think should have ever seen such chart. For example, if a team's batting average is the best in the league which consists of 5 teams, its radius is length 5 (or any other length proportional to the other values), and if the same team's earned runs average is fourth in the league, its length is 2, etc, etc... and then those points or "tips" are connected to each other within the chart, and finally the area of the connected figure is filled with any colors.
Sorry for the awful explanation (it's quite difficult for non-English native to explain it more clearly), but my question is, is it feasible to depict such graphs in iOS application? If it can be done in iOS app, how/what library do I use to plot such graphs?
I've read Core Graphics documentation as well as CorePlot example page but I wasn't able to find any such charts in those pages. I don't like the idea of using D3 embedded in UIWebView as suggested in this post since it's slow due to network latency. I don't know any other libraries to be as flexible and versatile as the two libraries above.
I use iOS 7.1 and Xcode 5.1.
[Update]
It's not a bubble chart. Let me explain it a little bit more concretely. The chart is a hexagon if every component of a record or sample is the best among the other competing records or samples and the number of the component to be described is six. In other words, the length of the component from the origin is whatever the longest possible values. But if one component, say, stolen bases, is NOT the best in the samples - say, it's the second best -, then the length of the component from the origin is not the longest; it's the second longest among the samples. And once every components (6 in this case) is plotted on the graph, those plotted points are connected to each other, and it finally is filled with whatever colors to make it the "area" of the record. And then this might be repeated in other records or samples as well. But unlike the bubble chart, one graph is made of one record and six features (or columns or variables) in this case - not all records and one feature (actually, three, but only one is used to make a bubble) which it is in the case of the bubble chart. Hope you get it...
[Update 2]
I finally got such charts on the Internet! The chart is something like this:
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You're describing a bubble chart. You can make one with Core Plot using a scatter plot. Implement one of the following datasource methods to provide custom plot symbols. Use your data to determine the size of each symbol. They can be different shapes and have varying fills and border line styles, too.
-(NSArray *)symbolsForScatterPlot:(CPTScatterPlot *)plot recordIndexRange:(NSRange)indexRange;
-(CPTPlotSymbol *)symbolForScatterPlot:(CPTScatterPlot *)plot recordIndex:(NSUInteger)idx;

Highcharts :: Need to split y-axis from primary body of chart. Can I display this axis separately from the Highchart?

I have a situation where I need to remove all margins from a highchart and remove the x/y axis so it fills a series of columns in a table completely.
I did that, no problem. Chart goes to the extremes as needed.
What I need now is that pesky yaxis I already removed...but displayed in a table cell outside of the existing highcharts object.
It would seem easy, as though I could just set the overflow property of yaxis to 'visible' and play with the offset...which would work however this would only work if I wanted to re-position the axis within the boundaries of the highchart object. I want him in a different cell entirely.
Is there anyone who has had experience in this situation? Is it going to require me to have a secondary highchart with only a y-axis?
Best answer gets a green check.
EDIT :: I now have dispersed each 'day' into their own column (more bars coming per day [scheduled,actual,etc...]). In order to keep the scales lined up, I manipulate the yAxis:max property and set them all to a derived value.
In the open column (currently w/ text Hourly Trends) is where I would put an additional highchart module with no series data but with the same min/max/tickInterval.
The next big leap will be to see the data is alive and changes w/ schedule. May have to start another thread for that one, no?
Create a new HC object with no data but only the yAxis (making sure it is the right scale, etc). Perhaps add the same series of data to it but hide the series? Add it to the location you want. This seems kludge and not very good practice. Each business use is different but why would you want this?
EDIT based on comment of business rules:
Why not come at this from a different direction and have the individual chart elements (the bars/points/etc) be a single point chart. This way you have one chart per column. You can then set up the yAxis to be text and not worry about the position. If we could see an example of the page layout and the desired result that would help.

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