Images says more than a thousands words. It is common sense and wise people has followed this rule for centuries by creating illustrations of thier ideas and thoughts. Today it is easier than ever as the technology for presenting nearly any type of information as a graph or chart on a web page is getting really mature. Reading through this article you will be faced with the problem on what technology and specific implementation you should use. It is not a trivial question and I recommend that you use comments on this article to share your ideas, concerns etc. with peer readers. This way you may get the input from the community that you need to create the optimal solution.
(Link: 75+ Tools for Visualizing your Data, CSS, Flash, jQuery, PHP | tripwire magazine)
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When you have a presentation to make, few things can be as helpful as a good visual aid. A graph can colorfully illustrate a point, and even convey complex data in a way that is easy to process. Creating a graph or a chart doesn’t have to be difficult, either. There are web apps that can help you create lovely graphs that can get your point across. Here are 50 free web apps that can help you make beautiful graph
(Link: 50 Free Web Apps to Make Beautiful Graphs)
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dygraphs is an open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.
(Link: dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library)
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For a project I am working on right now I needed to have really fast bar charts that don’t need any plugins or rely heavily on JavaScript. This is why I’ve put together some bar charts in pure CSS. Try this – move your mouse over the bars
(Link: CSScharts – bar charts created with pure CSS)
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Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.
(Link: Highcharts – Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage)
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I wanted to plot some simple bar charts recently and I fell on Gruff once again. Since the examples there didn’t have any info about bar charts it took me some time (ok – five with ten minutes :D) to find out that you can use them just like line charts but here are some examples anyway:
(Link: Nikos D.: Beautiful Bar Charts With Ruby and Gruff (Easy and Simple))
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gRaphaël’s goal is to help you create stunning charts on your website. It is based on Raphaël graphics library. Check out the demos to see static and interactive charts in action.
gRaphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.
(Link: gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library)
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Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.
Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you.
Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.
(Link: Axiis : Data Visualization Framework)
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Here you have a new roundup about a bunch of great tools for making charts and graphs. Choose between web generators, flash, javascript libraries, Silverlight or PHP classes. (via – FrancescoMugnai.com)
(Link: 25 great free resources for making charts)
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Ten excellent Flash components that will help you in building stunningly attractive, complex, and interactive data visuals. These components will help you create an assortment of graphs and charts to aid in presenting otherwise boring and stale numerical data.
(Link: 10 Useful Flash Components for Graphing Data)
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