Graphs and charts for the web

2 pointsuruzseven17y ago2 comments

Anyone have any nifty methods for creating nice looking charts and graphs dynamically on the web?

I'm currently using .png files created in Photoshop that I stretch via the width element to the desired size based on a variable.

I have some data I'd like to plot using a line graph but I haven't liked what I saw so far. Google has an option but they have some weird size restrictions.

I also found this http://www.r-project.org which seems a bit much for what I want but I may end up having a back end script that generates an image from a data set.

I'm hoping people much smarter than I have a better idea.

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breck17y ago

Here are a few i've used before:

Google charts: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ (if you want a really nifty flash tool to help you create google charts check out: http://www.clabberhead.com/googlechartgenerator.html)

Sparklines: http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ (on HN right now)

Flash charts: http://maani.us/

PHP Charts: http://naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/pages/introduction/

MaysonL17y ago

Processing is reasonably powerful, and has also been implemented in javascript.

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185191

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