A bar chart about cost of loss and damage caused by historical disasters. This example covers transformation strategies for axis labels and nondata annotations.

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The horizontal axis labels are not shortened in this case.

Design specification
{
  "data": [
    {
      "year": 1980,
      "cost": 40,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 0
    },
    {
      "year": 1981,
      "cost": 5,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 1
    },
    {
      "year": 1982,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 2
    },
    {
      "year": 1983,
      "cost": 35,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 3
    },
    {
      "year": 1984,
      "cost": 10,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 4
    },
    {
      "year": 1985,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 5
    },
    {
      "year": 1986,
      "cost": 15,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 6
    },
    {
      "year": 1987,
      "cost": 0,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 7
    },
    {
      "year": 1988,
      "cost": 45,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 8
    },
    {
      "year": 1989,
      "cost": 35,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 9
    },
    {
      "year": 1990,
      "cost": 20,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 10
    },
    {
      "year": 1991,
      "cost": 30,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 11
    },
    {
      "year": 1992,
      "cost": 60,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 12
    },
    {
      "year": 1993,
      "cost": 50,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 13
    },
    {
      "year": 1994,
      "cost": 20,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 14
    },
    {
      "year": 1995,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 15
    },
    {
      "year": 1996,
      "cost": 20,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 16
    },
    {
      "year": 1997,
      "cost": 15,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 17
    },
    {
      "year": 1998,
      "cost": 35,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 18
    },
    {
      "year": 1999,
      "cost": 30,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 19
    },
    {
      "year": 2000,
      "cost": 20,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 20
    },
    {
      "year": 2001,
      "cost": 30,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 21
    },
    {
      "year": 2002,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 22
    },
    {
      "year": 2003,
      "cost": 35,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 23
    },
    {
      "year": 2004,
      "cost": 75,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 24
    },
    {
      "year": 2005,
      "cost": 161,
      "labeled": true,
      "label": "Katrina",
      "_index_": 25
    },
    {
      "year": 2005,
      "cost": 60,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 26
    },
    {
      "year": 2006,
      "cost": 30,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 27
    },
    {
      "year": 2007,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 28
    },
    {
      "year": 2008,
      "cost": 75,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 29
    },
    {
      "year": 2009,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 30
    },
    {
      "year": 2010,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 31
    },
    {
      "year": 2011,
      "cost": 75,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 32
    },
    {
      "year": 2012,
      "cost": 125,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 33
    },
    {
      "year": 2013,
      "cost": 40,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 34
    },
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "cost": 30,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 35
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "cost": 40,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 36
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "cost": 45,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 37
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "cost": 125,
      "labeled": true,
      "label": "Harvey",
      "_index_": 38
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "cost": 90,
      "labeled": true,
      "label": "Maria",
      "_index_": 39
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "cost": 50,
      "labeled": true,
      "label": "Irma",
      "_index_": 40
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "cost": 18,
      "labeled": true,
      "label": "California wildfires",
      "_index_": 41
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "cost": 25,
      "labeled": false,
      "_index_": 42
    }
  ],
  "name": "cost",
  "layout": {
    "composition": "single",
    "width": 375,
    "height": 350,
    "row": [
      {
        "field": "cost"
      }
    ],
    "column": [
      {
        "field": "year",
        "type": "ordinal"
      }
    ],
    "vaxis": {
      "grid": true,
      "gridDash": [
        2,
        4
      ]
    }
  },
  "layer": [
    {
      "mark": {
        "type": "bar",
        "color": {
          "field": "labeled",
          "scale": {
            "range": [
              "#e3dcd1",
              "crimson"
            ]
          }
        },
        "stroke": {
          "value": "white"
        }
      },
      "text": [
        {
          "type": "on-axis",
          "field": "cost",
          "values": [
            100,
            200,
            300
          ],
          "anchor": "start",
          "orient": "left",
          "items": [
            {
              "align": "right",
              "fontSize": 14,
              "fontWeight": 100,
              "custom": {
                "300": "$300 billion"
              },
              "fill": "white"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "on-axis",
          "field": "year",
          "values": [
            "1980",
            "1985",
            "1990",
            "1995",
            "2000",
            "2005",
            "2010",
            "2015"
          ],
          "angle": 0,
          "items": [
            {
              "fontSize": 14,
              "fontWeight": 100,
              "align": "center"
            }
          ],
          "tick": {
            "ticks": true,
            "offset": 3
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "on-mark",
          "field": "label",
          "orient": "top-left",
          "anchorAlign": "end",
          "align": "right",
          "values": [
            "Katrina",
            "Maria",
            "Harvey",
            "Irma"
          ],
          "width": 120,
          "dx": -10,
          "dy": 10,
          "items": [
            {
              "fontSize": 12,
              "fontWeight": 100,
              "expression": "datum.value"
            }
          ],
          "tick": {
            "ticks": true
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "on-mark",
          "field": "label",
          "orient": "top-left",
          "anchorAlign": "end",
          "values": [
            "California wildfires"
          ],
          "width": 120,
          "dx": -10,
          "dy": -10,
          "items": [
            {
              "fontSize": 12,
              "fontWeight": 100,
              "expression": "(datum.value)"
            }
          ],
          "tick": {
            "ticks": true
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "nondata": {},
  "title": {
    "items": [
      {
        "text": "Total cost of major natural disasters",
        "align": "center",
        "fontSize": 14,
        "fontWeight": 700,
        "lineHeight": 130
      },
      {
        "text": "For disasters causing more than $1 billion in losses",
        "align": "center",
        "fontSize": 13,
        "lineHeight": 140
      }
    ]
  }
}
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Total cost of major natural disasters
For disasters causing more than $1 billion in losses
$-x-p16455$-x-p16460$-x-p16486$-x-p16491$-x-p37349$-x-p37354$-x-p37380$-x-p37385$-y-p48625$-y-p49586$-y-p50547
Katrina
Harvey
Maria
Irma
California wildfires
100
200
$300 billion
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Cicero Specification
Specification
{
  "$schema": "../cicero.json",
  "name": "cost-desktop",
  "description": "This is a Cicero specification for 'Disaster Cost' visualization from mobile to desktop.",
  "metadata": {
    "condition": "large"
  },
  "transformations": [
    {
      "description": "Resize the chart",
      "specifier": {
        "role": "view"
      },
      "action": "modify",
      "option": {
        "size": [
          1024,
          612
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "description": "Make title to annotation",
      "specifier": {
        "role": "title"
      },
      "action": "replace",
      "option": {
        "to": {
          "role": "annotation",
          "internal": true// This enables the automated positioning of an internalized annotation (only supported by our extension of Vega-Lite).
        },
        "separate": false// This denotes that internalizing all the title element as a single non-data annotation.
      }
    },
    {// a variation from the destkop->mobile transformation
      "description": "Add axis values: 250, 150, 50",
      "specifier": {
        "role": "vAxis"
      },
      "action": "add",
      "option": {
        "values": [
          50,
          150,
          250
        ]
      }
    },
    {// a variation from the destkop->mobile transformation
      "description": "Lengthen the labels",
      "specifier": {
        "role": "mark.label"
      },
      "action": "modify",
      "option": {
        "expression": "(datum.value !== 'California wildfires' ? 'Hurricane ' + datum.value : datum.value)",
        "dx": 10,
        "orient": "top-right",
        "anchor": "start",
        "align": "left",
        "tick": null
      }
    },
    {
      "description": "Add on-mark second items (specific to the dataset)",
      "specifier": {
        "role": "mark.label"
      },
      "action": "add",
      "option": {
        "items": [
          {
            "fontSize": 12,
            "fontWeight": 700,
            "expression": "('$' + datum.cost + ' billion')"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
Transformed View
$-x-p16455$-x-p16460$-x-p16486$-x-p16491$-x-p37349$-x-p37354$-x-p37380$-x-p37385$-y-p1691$-y-p48625$-y-p48780$-y-p49586$-y-p49741$-y-p50547
Hurricane Katrina
$161 billion
Hurricane Harvey
$125 billion
Hurricane Maria
$90 billion
Hurricane Irma
$50 billion
California wildfires
$18 billion
Total cost of major natural disasters
For disasters causing more than $1 billion in losses
50
100
150
200
250
$300 billion
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015