[cereallarceny]

Really? Perhaps it's just a matter of preference, but this coding style drives me up a fucking wall. Clutters the hell out of your code.

[webmaven]

I guess that depends on whether the settings you are passing to the chart are coming from somewhere else (say, an API call). If you can just get a JSON object from a backend and pass it directly to the chart, things become much simpler in your code.