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Normalized bar chart in Yandex DataLens

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Updated at December 30, 2025

A normalized bar chart shows the contribution, as a percentage, of multiple measures in the total amount by period or category.

  • Unlike a stacked bar chart, the proportion of segment ratios and not the total bar length is important for this type of chart.

  • Segments are highlighted in different colors and located one after the other. The length of a segment indicates its ratio to the total amount represented as 100%.

    Percentage of expenses in the annual budget

    normalized-horizontal-bar-chart

    Month Gasoline Rent Food Utility bills
    January 2019 100 600 300 500
    February 2019 150 600 250 700
    March 2019 100 600 450 400
    April 2019 120 600 370 510
    May 2019 100 600 300 530
    June 2019 130 600 310 600
    July 2019 150 600 330 510
    August 2019 120 600 250 550
    September 2019 110 650 380 500
    October 2019 120 650 300 550
    November 2019 130 650 310 540
    December 2019 100 650 400 550
    Percentage of payment types across product subcategories.

    normalized-horizontal-bar-chart-categories

    Subcategory Delivery Pickup
    Beauty and health products 615K 373K
    Kitchenware 1,929K 1,005K
    Kitchen products 1,217K 759K
    Detergents 1,210K 803K
    Health and beauty equipment 2,046K 1,380K
    Non-essential goods 1,368K 894K
    Cleaners 1,237K 673K

  • A normalized bar chart shows the contribution, as a percentage, of each category in the total measure value over a time interval.

    Sales percentage for different product categories

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    Month Home appliances Household goods Household cleaners
    January 2019 128K 55K 26K
    February 2019 97K 79K 18K
    March 2019 187K 105K 41K
    April 2019 188K 137K 34K
    May 2019 230K 121K 43K
    June 2019 256K 162K 59K
    July 2019 284K 206K 67K
    August 2019 409K 204K 72K
    September 2019 314K 209K 86K
    October 2019 324K 262K 79K
    November 2019 385K 238K 101K
    December 2019 451K 307K 111K

Wizard sections

Wizard
section		 Description
Y Dimensions. You can specify one or two dimensions. For the Date and Date and time types, you can set grouping by time: minutes, hours, weeks, and so on.
X Measure. You can specify multiple measures. If you add more than one measure to a section, the Colors section will contain a dimension named Measure Names. You can move Measure Names to the Y axis.
Colors Measure Names dimension or field. Affects the color of lines. To remove Measure Names, delete measures from the Y axis.
Sorting Dimension or measure. Affects the column sorting. The sorting direction is marked with an icon next to the field: for ascending or for descending. To change the sorting direction, click the icon.
Labels Measure. Displays measure values on the chart. If multiple measures are added to the Y section, drag Measure Values to this section. Markup functions are supported. For String type fields, you can configure using basic Markdown in Yandex DataLens syntax: click the icon before the field name and enable Markdown.
Filters Dimension or measure. Used as a filter.

Creating a normalized bar chart

To create a normalized bar chart:

Warning

If you use a new DataLens object model with workbooks and collections:

  1. Go to the DataLens home page. In the left-hand panel, select Collections and workbooks.
  2. Open the workbook, click Create in the top-right corner, and select the appropriate object.

Follow the guide from step 4.

  1. Go to the DataLens home page.

  2. In the left-hand panel, select Charts.

  3. Click Create chart → Chart.

  4. At the top left, click Select dataset and specify the dataset to visualize. If you do not have a dataset, create one.

  5. Select Normalized bar chart as the chart type.
  6. Drag one or more dimensions from the dataset to the Y section. The values will be displayed on the Y axis.
  7. Drag one or more measures from the dataset to the X section.
  8. Drag a dimension from the dataset or the Measure Names field to the Color section.

Recommendations

  • Labels. If the category values are too verbose, make them shorter so that the chart labels look neater.

    You can use string functions in calculated fields or the CASE conditional statements.

  • Segments. Do not display more than three to five segments on the chart.

  • Dimension or measure. Affects the intensity of point fill.

See also

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