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Animating infographics: Bar charts

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Animating infographics: Bar charts

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- Bar charts are easy to animate because they're basically straight lines. And we've seen in other videos that any time we have a straight line we can make it appear to grow with a little scaling trick. I've used that trick here. For each bar, I've set the scaling to be a width of 100%, a height of 0, and have it grow to the Current Appearance from the bottom point. That's going to make the bar start at zero here and grow up. Now the issue here that I wanted to show you is when you have text on these bars. Let's see what happens with this trick when we apply it to bars that have a legend on them or a description of what each bar is. I'll show it to you in the preview panel. Notice how the type is scaling. Now some people might like that. It sort of looks like it's folding out as it goes up but I'm not crazy about it. And I'd like to show you a slightly different way of approaching this bar chart that will eliminate that strange scaling with the type, unless you like it of course and…

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