Thanks for visiting our website! We regularly publish posts like this one. If you are interested in receiving the latest updates as soon as they are posted, please consider subscribing to the RSS feed or to our e-mail newsletter.

Grafico is a graphing library based on Raphael and Prototype.js. Originally developed as Ico by Alex Young, this new library, now developed by Kilian Valkhof at Wakoopa, is flexible to implement and provides numerous api options to tweak the look of the graphs. Grafico’s basic principles are to provide good, clean looking graphs while stayings with the guidelines laid out by Stephen Few and Edward Tufte.

Grafico supports the following graph types: Line graphs, Area graphs, Stacked area graphs, Bar graphs, Horizontal bar graphs, Sparklines, Sparkbars, Sparkareas.

Grafico’s Key Features:

• Flexible ranges – Grafico select the best range to display your data at
• Hover options – display additional information such as the value when hovering over charts
• Mean lines – A single line that display the mean.
• Watermarks – Use an image as a watermark over your graphs

TufteGraph is a JQuery Plugin that generates beautiful (stacked) bar charts. It works in conjunction with the JQuery enumerable plugin. The graphs can be styled via CSS. If you are looking for beautiful colors you want to use on the charts, you can find some at colourlovers.com.

Why is it different from other JavaScript charting libraries?

• Uses dynamic functions for configuration, allowing for a really compact API (very few options)
• Non-core layout is done via CSS rather than code

dygraphs is a lightweight (45kb) and responsive JavaScript Visualization Library that produces interactive and zoomable charts of time series. This library is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.

Being purely client-side JavaScript, dygraphs does not send your data to any servers: the data is processed entirely in the client’s browser.

Read more from this entry…

Highcharts is a JavaScript charting library that offers an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web sites/applications. This library, written in pure JavaScript, currently supports line, spline, bar, pie, column, area, areaspline and and scatter chart types. Any of these can be combined in one chart. Since it is solely based on native browser technologies, Highcharts doesn’t require client side plugins like Flash or Java. No server side programming languages (PHP, ASP NET etc.) are required to use this charting library that needs only 3 files to run: the highcharts.js core, a canvas emulator for IE, either the jQuery or the MooTools framework.

Features include:

• Numerous chart types
• Simple configuration syntax
• Tooltip labels
• Datetime axis
• Zooming
• External data loading
• Inverted chart or reversed axis
• Text rotation for labels

MilkChart is a robust and simple to use MooTools library for transforming table data into a chart. The library uses the HTML5 <canvas> tag which is currently supported in browsers other than Internet Explorer. Currently the library supports the following types:

• Column
• Bar
• Line
• Scatter
• Pie

Read more from this entry…

Filament Group released the JQuery Visualize Plugin which provides a simple method for generating charts and graphs using the HTML 5 Canvas element. JavaScript is scraping the tables in order to generate the charts. The data for the visualization exists in tabular format and it is accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology (AT).

You can use this plugin to generate bars, lines, areas, and pie charts from a HTML table. They can be configured in a variety of ways.

Do you want to render data-driven and animated-charts for your web-applications and presentations using the power of Flash? Checkout the following FREE Flash Charting components. A lot of companies are using them to deliver eye-catching and snazzy graphics out of the boring (classical) data tables.

FusionCharts Free v2.1 is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages and even Power Point presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. No Flash programming knowledge is required to use FusionCharts. You only need to know the language you’re programming in.

Open Flash Chart is an open source project which creates charts, pies, line bars etc. using the power of Flash.

Open Flash Chart is a compiled flash object which communicates with the world by downloading a data file. This is ‘at arms length’ and means you can use it in a commercial product, so long as you inform your users that Open Flash Chart is GPL and provide access (e.g. a link) to the source code.

amCharts is a free software which generates (animated) flash charts and requires flash player 8 or higher. The only limitation of the free version is that a small link to the http://www.amcharts.com/ address will be displayed in the top left corner of the charts.