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Recap of the Week – 9/28/2015

September 28th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

This week we have posted on AnyChart Facebook Page the following information on data visualization:

  • Why Pinellas County is the worst place in Florida to be black and go to public school? See the interactive map.
  • What a PErformance: some interesting data on Silicon Valley’s fortunes, visualized by The Economist.
  • Is it possible to achieve a multi-layered storytelling with data? Take a look at these stylish diagrams by Accurat and learn how they were created.
  • Where and when do people see UFOs? These interesting and well-designed UFO infographics are based on data coming from the National UFO Reporting Center.

Recap of the Week – 9/13/2015

September 14th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

Here is a quick recap of the interesting information on data visualization, which we have discovered this week (and posted on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter):

  • Refugees/Migrants Emergency Response – This interactive infographic from The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) allows to see the scale of the refugee crisis in Europe, migration routes, and more.
  • Parable of the Polygons – Parable of the Polygons is a playable segregation simulation based on the work of Nobel Prize-winning game theorist, Thomas Schelling. Play and learn how harmless choices can make a harmful world!
  • 11 Awesome Data Visualizations Way Ahead Of Their Time – Explore data visualization history – check out 11 awesome data visualizations way ahead of their time.

Recap of the Week – 9/4/2015

September 4th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

This week we have posted the following news on data visualization and AnyChart:

  • A quick guide demonstrating how to save ‪AnyChart‬ 6 charts as images in Oracle‬ APEX.
  • This interactive map portraying Rennes Metropolis inhabitants is quite enjoyable to play around with. The visualization is based on 18 indicators including location of workplace, marital status, number of cars in the household, and so on. In addition, the initial data were cross-referenced, which makes the picture even more detailed!
  • These two colorful infographics will help you to find out what insect venoms are made of and which insect’s sting is the most painful. But don’t worry – summer is over 🙂
  • How Is Big Data Changing the World? – An article about Big Data in our everyday lives.
  • 13 Helpful Diagrams For People Who Only Care About Cheese – “Knowledge is power: the power to eat more cheese” – there is nothing more to add to this. Enjoy the diagrams!

Recap of the Week – 8/29/2015

August 29th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

This week we have posted on Facebook the following information on data visualization and AnyChart:

  • We have shared a tutorial explaining how to insert AnyChart JavaScript charts into WordPress posts.
  • Android Fragmentation Report – Fragmentation is both a strength and weakness of the Android ecosystem, a headache for developers that also provides the basis for Android’s global reach. This visualization demonstrates the scale of the problem.
  • Mapping Migration in the United States – In this interactive map by The Upshot, you can find detailed information on how often Americans migrate from their states of birth. (Each shape represents where the people living in a state were born. Within a state, larger shapes mean a group makes up a larger share of the population.)
  • How People Engage with Data Visualisations and Why It Matters – An article by Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield, explaining what is visualization literacy and what skills it requires.

Recap of the Week – 8/23/2015

August 24th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

In this post you will find a recap of the exciting visualizations we have shared with you this week on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter:

  • Place Poetry – a playful mobile application which enables people to arrange strangely named cities into poems, while simultaneously plotting the location and distance of their journey.
  • Solar System of JS – an infographic about JavaScript.
  • This neat interactive chart by The Guardian gives you the detailed information about gay rights in the US, state by state. It is definitely an example of a good data visualization (though the information is out-of-date).
  • Stuff in Space is a realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit. One thing is to know how much stuff there is, and another thing is to see it with your own eyes.

AnyChart, AnyMap, and AnyGantt 7.6.0

August 13th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

We are proud to announce 3 new releases – AnyChart 7.6.0, AnyMap 7.6.0, AnyGantt 7.6.0. Our team has been working hard to make our products even more aesthetically pleasing, and now all AnyChart charts have a new modern look and design (See the New Look and Theming feature). We have also added a number of other great improvements, and here are the most important of them:

AnyChart 7.6.0 New Features

All AnyChart products now support the Theming feature which makes customizing and integrating charts easier. With Theming, you can set similar visual and functional settings for all charts without duplicating your code.
Take a look at Gallery samples >>
Learn more about Theming >>
Crosshairs are thin vertical and horizontal lines centered on a data point, which are useful when you want to locate a point precisely on your chart or to analyse data by comparing different charts.
Take a look at a Gallery sample >>
Learn more about Crosshair >>
Pie/Donut Charts are popular, nice-looking, and very easy to understand, and now you can make them even more attractive by adding 3D!
Take a look at Gallery samples >>
Learn more about 3D Pie Chart >>

AnyMap 7.6.0 Features

  • Choropleth Maps provide an easy way to visualize how a measurement varies across a geographic area.
  • Ordinal Color Range looks like several boxes of different colors which depend on the palette chosen according to the type of a map and its data.
  • Quantitative Color Range is a bar colored with a gradient, its colors depend on the palette of a map and its data.
  • Full Compatibility with other Charts – when you need to show any extra information along with a map – no problem! Use AnyMap with any other charts.

AnyGantt 7.6.0 New Features

  • Now a double-click on borders of data grid columns resets their width to the default value.
  • Added the ability to draw the Baseline above the Actual, see API Reference for details.
  • AnyGantt now supports formatting for Data Grid Columns, see API Reference for details.

AnyChart version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/
AnyMap version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anymap/history/
AnyGantt version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anygantt/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/

P.S. The set of ready-to-use maps is rather small for the moment, but we will add about a hundred maps in a week, and then the list will just keep growing.

AnyStock Alpha Preview

August 3rd, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

AnyChart Stock 7 is an upcoming addition to new AnyChart 7 HTML5 JavaScript Engine: Financial charting solution that allows to turn your real time data into highly sophisticated charts with interactive capability.

Designed to display large datetime datasets, AnyStock is the ideal tool for client reporting and performance based reporting applications. Reports and Dashboards are visualized with scrolling, drill downs, panning and zoom functionality.

Demo page: https://www.anychart.com/products/anystock/demos/alpha/

What you can see on a demo page is the early Alpha preview of AnyStock, this chart shows dataset of 20.000 points and it usually takes about half a second to be rendered in a modern browser on an average workstation. The title of the chart you see shows results of the real performance benchmark for this chart on your computer.

We are working hard to go into the release stage, polishing all bells and whistles and hoping to make it by September 2015.

New AnyStock will feature amazing speed and all the neat things our customers loved previous versions of in AnyStock, and it will be fully integrated into the new AnyChart 7 Framework and share most of its ideology, settings technique and ease of use – and you will be able to use it along other charts, including those we have in the AnyChart Basic Charts, AnyGantt Gantt Charts and AnyMap HTML5 Maps.

We are convinced that you will be pleased with the result, stay tuned!

AnyMap News and Recap of the Week

July 26th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

Good news, everyone! We are putting finishing touches on the new AnyMap HTML5 engine, along with the new version of AnyChart with an amazing Theming Feature: ability to segregate settings and data once and till the end of times (if you wish to) and switch visual presets on-the-fly. And we are going to show the first demo of AnyStock HTML5 next week too.

Also, some interesting stuff we’ve encountered this week and covered on AnyChart Facebook Page:

We’ve noticed Line Charts in Age of Wonders III and Triumph Studios spotted that we were on the tutorial level.

Two great projects from the UK:

  • Seeing Data: Making Sense of Data Through Visualisations is a research project which aims to understand how people make sense of data visualisations, the project is headed by Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
  • Compound Interest is a site that aims to take a closer look at the chemical compounds we come across on a day-to-day basis. It also provides graphics for educational purposes, both for teacher and student use. The site is run single-handedly by Andy Brunning, a chemistry teacher based in the UK who creates the graphics for the site in his spare time.

Recap of the Week – 7/20/2015

July 20th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

This week we have posted the following news on data visualization, data science, and AnyChart:

By the way, we are going to update AnyChart Maps – AnyMap in a matter of days, it will be a completely new, HTML5-ready JavaScript maps engine.

Stay tuned!

Recap of the Week – 7/12/2015

July 12th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

Here is a quick recap of the interesting information on data visualization, which we have discovered this week – and, of course, of some AnyChart news:

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