.. This document is auto-generated by the altair-gallery extension. Do not modify directly.

.. _gallery_line_with_log_scale:


Line Chart with Logarithmic Scale
---------------------------------
How to make a line chart on a `Logarithmic scale <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale>`_.


.. altair-plot::
    :code-below:

    
    import altair as alt
    from vega_datasets import data

    source = data.population()

    alt.Chart(source).mark_line().encode(
        x='year:O',
        y=alt.Y(
            'sum(people)',
            scale=alt.Scale(type="log")  # Here the scale is applied
        )
    )

.. toctree::
   :hidden: