Charts and graphs help the user to visualize data in a more meaningful way than rows of text statistics. They are extensively used in reporting applications, for displaying earnings, website traffic etc – here we take a look at some pre-made scripts and frameworks available to the web designer or web application developer …
Open Flash Chart – Open Flash Chart, is open source. It is free to use and you get the source code to fiddle with
amCharts – Pie and donut charts, line and area charts, column and bar charts, scatter and bubble charts and an interactive map tool are all free for download
Php / Swf Charts – PHP/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data. Use PHP scripts to generate or gather the data from databases, then pass it to this tool to generate Flash (swf) charts and graphs. Any other scripting language (ASP, CFML, Perl, etc.) can be used with XML/SWF Charts (the XML version of the same tool.)
Fusion Charts Free – FusionCharts Free is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations
Yahoo! UI Library: Charts – The YUI Charts Control visualizes tabular data on a web page in several possible formats including vertical columns, horizontal bars, lines, and pies. Notable features include support for the DataSource Utility, customizable series and axes, a customizable mouse-over datatip, combination charts, and skinning
Flot – Flot is a pure JavaScript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming
SAC – Simple accessible charts, An easy, fast and accessible way to display simple Data and beautify them with CSS. Works fine in FF, IE 7/6, Opera 9 tested on WIN XP
Similie – Timeplot is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for plotting time series and overlay time-based events over them (with the same data formats that Timeline supports)
PlotKit – PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for JavaScript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support
Libchart – Libchart is a free chart creation PHP library, that is easy to use
This complimation is looking good there Oli, keep up the good work!
you could als add
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
Great collection! This will definitely come in handy for future projects.
Follow up to mathis above, the Google Chart API was used in the creation of the Love-o-Graph, which can be found at http://lovegraph.thefootnotes.net or here. It’s kind of dorky, but it’s a good example of the power and simplicity of this sort of API.
we can just tables and color, or divs and background colors and ready your graph. not good all time .gif or .jpg anagrams.
The new Google Chart API is another good alternative. You can play with it using a site like http://chartpart.com/
I think can arise a problems with a browser IE
This is some verry interesting article, many thanks for your effort.