It’s funny how things come in droves.
A good friend of mine has, over the years, written a few applications that require graphing. He has written them as VB applications and when I’ve suggested he make them as web-apps, one of his fairly valid objections is that it would be tricky to create good-looking graphs with dynamic data.
Google’s Charting API
So just this morning, the Barnacle drew my attention to Google’s new Charting API (Read the Developers’ Guide). It takes some query string parameters and returns your chart as an image.
Check it out:
Now that’s pretty cool, isn’t it?
Although I think the data encoding, while clever, seems a little quirky.
Flot for jQuery
And so having spotted that this morning, I’m stumbling around the net this evening and discover Flot, a charting plug-in for jQuery. This is teh awesome; just check out the examples, especially the zoom!
So, while you’re waiting for other browsers to support SVG, here’s a veritable choice of quality charting goodness to satisfy the most particular of needs.
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