Highcharts truly is a wonderful tool. However, it can be onerous to get it to accept "datetime" values but the documentation and examples are great (http://www.highcharts.com/demo/). You can theme your charts, be interactive, etc. It is all built and used via JavaScript so having a firm foundation or being comfortable to make changes in that language is a requirement.
The interactive facets of Highcharts that I appreciate the most are interactive zooming (for dense data) and the ability to click on a "series" and have the chart redrawn with only the currently selected -- automatically updating the axes if necessary and animating the transition to the new data set as well! You can also have the data update live on a regular interval if applicable. We decided to combine some of our top priority statistics and graphs into a single view here: http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/dashboard/public.php Our dashboard interface has come a long way and is powered through a fairly robust back-end of various "factories" of information and "widgets" of data to choose from. You are welcome to take the interface as an inspiration and see the JavaScript in the source files that drive the display. Feel free to contact me with questions, Victor Replogle University Libraries...A destination for research, learning, and friends Library Technologies Support Analyst University Libraries 765.285.8032 Ball State University 765.285.2008 (fax) Muncie, IN 47306 [email protected] www.bsu.edu/library The University Libraries provides services that support student pursuits for academic success and faculty endeavors for knowledge creation and classroom instruction. -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michel, Jason Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 13:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data Wow. Highcharts looks to be an excellent tool. Thanks for the tip! Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 *[email protected] <[email protected]>* @jpmichel <https://twitter.com/jpmichel> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Joshua Welker <[email protected]> wrote: > Definitely Highcharts. I have used it on a few projects, and it is > fantastic. It's free for non-commercial use. Great documentation and > support. It also has plugins for several web app frameworks like > Rails, Django, Yii, etc. Very helpful if you are going to use one of > those to build your dashboard. > > Josh Welker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Kaile Zhu > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data > > I used google charts. Not as fancy as D3, but easier. You pass data > to the chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you. > > https://developers.google.com/chart/ > > -Kelly Zhu > Web Services Librarian > University of Central Oklahoma > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Eric Phetteplace > Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data > > I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe > a little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has > tremendous adoption, is really flexible. > > http://d3js.org/ > > Best, > Eric > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > > We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data > > points (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db > > stats, instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single > > DB. We then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this > > data. > > > > What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would > > work for this? We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l > > had to say about it. Thanks in advance! > > > > This is what we have so far (social stats only). We're using > > chart.js for > > this: > > > > http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/ > > > > > > Jason Paul Michel > > User Experience Librarian > > Miami University Libraries > > 513.529.3935 > > *[email protected] <[email protected]>* @jpmichel > > <https://twitter.com/jpmichel> > > > **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, > Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! > > **CONFIDENTIALITY** -This e-mail (including any attachments) may > contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any > unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited. >
