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Javascript Charting Library Research

Posted on 07/16/2015 at 10:36 pm by Kevin Wentworth
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I'm getting ready to roll out some new graphing functionality and wanted to take a look at the state of JavaScript graphing libraries.

Goals:

1. Beautiful Charts - there are a lot of hokey looking charts out there
2. Fast
3. Avoid sending data to a 3rd party
4. No license fees.  MIT License is always ideal.

Current JavaScript graphing Tools / Approach

Coming Soon...

Future Approach to JavaScript Charting

Gauges / Speedometers - http://justgage.com/

Charting Library - http://www.chartjs.org/

HTML Tables to Chart.js - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26521352/create-dynamic-chart-with-chart-js

Additional Chart Types / Extensions:

• Horizontal Bar Chart - https://github.com/tomsouthall/Chart.HorizontalBar.js
• A Spie Chart for Chart.JS - http://angus.nyc/2015/a-spie-chart-for-chart-js/
• Multi-Level Pie Chart - https://github.com/tarnfeld/MultiLevelPieChart.js
• Chart.js Official Community Extensions - http://www.chartjs.org/docs/#advanced-usage-community-extensions

This article is a work in progress... it's research for now.  I'll update as I progress.

-Kevin