Visualizations: tiny bars don't have mouseover counts

[danicahelb]

When I hover over bars with small heights, I do not get a mouseover with the exact count for that bar:

For example, in GEMS1, I cannot mouseover to get the exact counts of "Other, specify"

[moontrip]

Hi @danicahelb It was a well-known issue, due to inherent nature of any bar/histogram plot library. As you showed in the screenshot, the max is around 15000 while the min is very small like 1. There is no way to show such a small min value in such a case. To alleviate this issue, @bobular suggested addressing the dependent axis range in log-scale option, which tends to have much smaller range and larger plot area for smaller values in log-scale: this it may be possible to emphasize small values.

please refer to the following ticket, #589, and it was addressed at the following PRs, #623: the PR contains more detailed info & screenshot

For this reason, I think that this ticket is a non-issue, will not be addressed, or already addressed

[bobular]

This is a tricky one. I agree that log mode is a sensible workaround for now.

I played with layout.hoverdistance: -1 which seems to have some poorly documented behaviour. One of the tiny bars does get a mouse-over, but all the other bars get the exact same mouse-over. :-(

[bobular]

Some suggestions regarding numbers above bars

VEuPathDB/web-components#389 (comment)