There are times when data in a bar chart has similar values for a number of the bars and it can be difficult to see the differences. One option is to zoom in on the top section of the bar chart. This article investigates a number of options and identifies the best approach for this in Swift Charts.
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I came across the Matthew effect recently, which struck me as very unfair so I wondered if I could reproduce the results demonstrated. This article outlines the Swift code for an app to test the redistribution of coins in a closed population based on random coin tosses between agents in the population.
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A Slider control is a UI control that allows the user to select a value from within a range of values. In SwiftUI, it is usually presented as a thumb selector on a linear line. There are times when it might be better to present this type of selector as a circle with the thumb moving around the circumference. This …
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At WWWDC 2022, Apple introduced SwiftUI Charts, which makes it easy to create various charts within SwiftUI views. This article demonstrates how to quickly create a bar chart and customise the chart containing multiple sets of data.
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SwiftUI Charts introduced in iOS 16, can present data in an intuitive visual format and can be created quickly using SwiftUI Charts. This article demonstrates a couple of ways to customise a line chart and combine with an area chart to present data.
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Apple introduced SwiftUI Charts at WWWDC 2022, which makes it incredibly easy to create charts within SwiftUI views. Charts are a great way of presenting visual data in a rich format that is easy to understand. This article shows how to easily create a line chart with so much less code than was previously used to …
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Reduce is a simple way to perform an operation over each element in a collection and condense down to a single value. It is commonly used on a list of numeric values to add up all the values.
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SwiftUI does not have a control to present an open/save dialog to the user to allow saving files to the macOS filesystem. One could build such a view from scratch, but it is easier to use NSSavePanel from AppKit. This article demonstrates how to use NSSavePanel to get the URL for the file to be saved and use …
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Swift provides a number of map methods to transform elements in Swift collections and return the transformed data in a new Array. The transform is supplied in a trailing closure to the map function. This article looks at Map, FlatMap and CompactMap on collections in Swift as well as MapValues in Dictionary.
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A dictionary stores a list of key/value pairs in an unordered structure that is fast and efficient at adding elements and finding elements by a key. Each element in the dictionary is identified using its key, which is a hashable type such as a string or number.
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