Data Visualization Weekly: Interactive Dashboard of US States and More
February 17th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Data Visualization Weekly presented by AnyChart is here! In this new issue, we are glad to show you an interactive dashboard as well as maps and charts in another collection of the best and most followed dataviz masterpieces that we shared on Facebook and Twitter over the course of the last week. These include:
- Interactive Dashboard of US States
- Is Donald Trump’s Wall Necessary?
- Finding the Cleanest Restaurants in NYC
- Early Maps and Infographics of the 1800s
- Categories: Data Visualization Weekly, News
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AnyChart Wins 2017 Devies Award for Best JavaScript Technologies (PHOTO)
February 14th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
We are proud to tell you today that our company AnyChart has won the JavaScript Technologies category at the 2017 Devies Awards! The ceremony took place yesterday in San Francisco, CA, as part of DeveloperWeek, the world’s largest developer conference and expo with 8,000 attendees. Our CEO Anton Baranchuk received the award on behalf of the AnyChart team.
The DeveloperWeek Advisory Board received hundreds of nominations and, of course, thoroughly studied how much we did last year. What excited the judges most was the public release of our JavaScript graphics library GraphicsJS. And they concluded that to be last year’s most notable innovation in JavaScript technologies, exceptionally meaningful to the whole web development community.
The Devies Awards celebrate the most innovative companies in the field of developer technologies across 13 categories. Together with AnyChart, among this year’s winners are industry giants Microsoft and IBM.
- Categories: Charts and Art, GraphicsJS, JavaScript, News, Success Stories
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Data Visualization Weekly: JS Multi-Series Line Chart DataViz and More
February 10th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
All dataviz lovers are welcome to the new issue of Data Visualization Weekly brought to you by AnyChart JS Charts! Today we are publishing the best and new chart, map and infographic examples shared on our Twitter and Facebook accounts during the last seven days.
So, get ready for the best peculiar practices that made the previous week in data visualization special! And now let’s take a look at what dataviz inspirations were most followed. Read more »
- Categories: Data Visualization Weekly, News
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Data Visualization Weekly: JS Polar Chart of Mic Sensitivity and More
February 2nd, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Data visualization weekly recaps became a tradition for our AnyChart Blog some time ago. Good news: we decided to resume it to highlight the best and new practices shared on our Facebook and Twitter accounts within the previous seven days. This means you will always be in the know of what charts, dashboards, maps, infographics, and video animations are trending and worth seeing.
As a matter of fact, data visualization is further evolving and gaining popularity as the best way to convey various information, whether it is in business reporting, analytics solutions, journalism, presentations, etc. That is why we are trying to monitor a lot of different sources and hope to deliver you the best of noteworthy, peculiar projects and practices for inspiration.
Now, let’s proceed to the visualizations that particularly caught our – and our followers’ – eyes during the last seven days, starting from January 27th, 2017. To put it in a nutshell first, the current data visualization weekly recap includes New York trees, Trump’s emotions, ocean salinity, words from Hamilton, US venture industry, and microphone sensitivity polar pattern. Read more »
- Categories: Data Visualization Weekly, News
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Introducing Chartopedia to Help You Choose the Right Chart Types for Your Data Visualization
January 18th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Choosing the right chart types for data analysis and reporting solutions is always a challenge. In fact, there are so many data visualization options out there that it can be really complicated to determine which one to use in a certain situation. And you cannot afford to make a mistake here, because applying data to an inappropriate type of chart will very likely end up causing confusion and even wrong business decisions.
To help you cope with this issue better (and faster), we have developed an information resource named Chartopedia, and it is a pleasure for us to introduce it to you today.
- Categories: AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, Business Intelligence, Financial Charts, Gantt Chart, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Stock Charts, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
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AnyChart JS Charts 2016 Year in Review: Look How Much Was Done!
December 26th, 2016 by AnyChart TeamThis year has been so busy and fruitful for AnyChart JS Charts that now our team is extremely tired and feels incredibly happy at the same time. In fact, we went all out to make our JavaScript (HTML5) based charting libraries AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyGantt, and AnyMap even much more feature-rich, flexible, user-friendly, and faster with only one purpose – to bring you an unprecedented data visualization experience.
Looking back, we are proud of how MUCH was done in 2016! And now, we invite you to join us in quickly reviewing this year’s accomplishments that further strengthened AnyChart’s global leadership in interactive data visualization.
Without more ado, here is the list of new product and feature arrivals as well as major improvements to our JS charts solutions – a great chance to make sure you did not miss any important innovation.
1. More Types of JS Charts.
JS graphs and diagrams
- Treemap charts
- Linear gauges – LED, tank, and thermometer
- 3D area charts
- 3D bar charts
- 3D column charts
Stock and financial JS charts
- Candlestick charts
- Spline charts
- Step line charts
- Area charts
- Step area charts
- Spline area charts
- Marker charts
- Range column charts
- Range area charts
- Range spline area charts
JS Gantt charts
- PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) charts
- Resource charts (redesigned; beta)
JS maps
- Dot (point) maps
- Flow (connector) maps
- Seat maps
2. More Features in JS Charts.
All JS charts
- Full accessibility (Section 508)
- Localization engine with 196 culture-specific locale settings files. Demos: AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyGantt, AnyMap
JS graphs and diagrams
- Chart themes/palettes (demo)
- Exclude/include data points
- Context menu
- Save data as XSLX and CSV
- Save chart configuration as XML and JSON
- String tokens
- Chart statistics
- Standalone chart elements
- Tooltip settings improvement
Stock and financial JS charts
- Drawing tools and annotations (demo)
- Technical indicators – MACD, RSI, SMA, EMA, ROC, Aroon, and custom
- Data grouping
- Markers on data points
- Range selection UI
- Legend interactivity
- Y-scale comparison mode (changes and percentage changes)
JS Gantt charts
- Calendar support
- Smart timeline
- Event markers for time intervals and important events
- Timeline markers for multiple milestones
JS maps
- Drill down
- Longitude/latitude API
- Move/zoom API
- Rich integration of keyboard and mouse controls
- 13 map projections
3. Easier JS charting.
- Chart editor (demo)
- Demos of business solutions including the following JavaScript (HTML5) dashboards:
- Web Audience dashboard
- Human Resources dashboard
- Investment Portfolio dashboard
- Sales dashboard
- CIO dashboard
- Site Speed Overview dashboard
- States of the US dashboard
- Migration tool – a small library for easier transit from AnyChart 5/6 to 7
- 20+ technical integration templates and samples for easy JS/HTML5 data visualization with any popular technology stack:
- ASP.NET – C# / C#, SignalR / VB.NET – MySQL integration template
- Clojure – ClojureScript – PostgreSQL integration template
- Go – (Revel) – MySQL integration template
- iOS – Objective-C – SQLite integration template
- Java Servlets – Maven, JDBC, JSP – MySQL integration template
- Java Spring – Maven, Hibernate – MySQL integration template
- Julia – MySQL integration template
- NodeJS – (Express, Jade) / Socket.IO – MongoDB integration template
- Perl – Catalyst – MySQL integration template
- PHP – (Laravel / Slim / Symfony) – MySQL integration template
- Python – Flask / Django – MySQL integration template
- R – Shiny – MySQL integration template
- Ruby on Rails – (Sinatra) – MySQL integration template
- Scala – Akka / Play – MySQL integration template
- Electron integration template
4. Faster JS Charts.
- Performance improvement (speed test):
- Less than 1s to render 250,000 data points
- Less than 60ms to stream 500 points
- Async rendering (docs)
5. New Products.
- AnyChart 7.x Plugins for Oracle APEX
- GraphicsJS, a powerful open-source JavaScript graphics library (SVG)
To sum up, 2016 was immensely intensive. But 2017 will be no less productive from the very beginning – we promise.
We wish you a peaceful, prosperous, and happy new year!
- Categories: AnyChart Charting Component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Financial Charts, Gantt Chart, GraphicsJS, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Oracle Apex, Stock Charts
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JS Charting Without Borders: 21 New Integration Templates for Popular Stacks
December 19th, 2016 by AnyChart TeamMaking your data visualization life ever easier is what we at AnyChart are boundlessly passionate about. This time we focused on further simplifying the integration of our JS charting solutions into your web development environment.
So, prepare to replan your schedule! From now on, you will spend tangibly less time on charting. And please greet the 21 New Technical Integration Templates that we have just released! They will help you deploy HTML5 graphs, maps, stock charts, dashboards, and Gantt diagrams in your stack as easily (and rapidly!) as never before, no matter what programming languages, frameworks, and databases are used.
You can find the templates right here on our website, in the Technical Integrations section.
Basically, our powerful JavaScript/HTML5 based solutions for interactive data visualization – AnyChart, AnyMap, AnyStock, and AnyGantt – are inherently compatible with all major technologies and platforms. Configuring each JS charting library is easy, and we are sure all of you are more than capable of making even rather complicated integrations prefectly done by yourself. But we keep on doing our best to bring you the ultimate simplicity and clarity so you could get along without additional research and other time-consuming activities.
The integration templates we’ve added cover the most popular languages, frameworks and libraries, and database programs. Below is the list of the newly available combinations.
Templates for easily integrating AnyChart JS charting libraries into your stack:
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We hope you agree that this is a tremendous addition to the JS charting integration samples published earlier:
- Clojure, ClojureScript and PostgreSQL,
- iOS, Objective-C and SQLite,
- NodeJS and MongoDB,
- PHP and MySQL,
- PHP, Slim and MySQL.
So, you are welcome to make use of our integration templates and samples for easier data visualization. All of them are released on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License, rest in the AnyChart Integrations repository, and can be forked and changed in any way.
We are going to keep the collection growing further. Meanwhile, please send us your suggestions on what other particular integration you are interested to learn about first, and – as always! – that one will be prioritized; just contact our Support Team for that and name your stack.
To make your JS charting life even easier, we will release special AnyChart plugins for Angular, Ember, jQuery, Meteor, and React JavaScript frameworks in February 2017, with the 7.13.0 update. But this is a completely other remarkable story. Stay tuned. And thanks for being with us!
- Categories: AnyChart Charting Component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Financial Charts, Gantt Chart, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Stock Charts, Third-Party Developers, Tips and Tricks
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AnyChart JS Charting Library 7.12.0 Released
October 31st, 2016 by Margaret SkomorokhAnyChart JS charting library updated! We are glad to announce four new releases: AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyMap, and AnyGantt 7.12.0 are now available for download.
AnyChart 7.12.0 New Features
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Localization Support One of the main news of this release: support of localization using locale settings files and special formatting functions. Now our JS charting library allows to switch between 196 different regional settings, and all date/time chart elements update themselves. Take a look at AnyChart Localization demo>> Learn more about Localization Support>> |
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Standalone Chart Elements Now you can use all chart building blocks, such as scales, axes, legends and so on to build your own charts and dashboards. Use this feature along with AnyChart’s GraphicsJS graphics library, and you will be able to create your own unique charts and visualizations. Learn more about Standalone Chart Elements>> |
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Tooltip Settings Improvement API for tuning chart and series tooltips is improved. These changes allow to make your applications simpler, leaving room for flexibility as well. Learn more about Tooltip Settings Improvement>> |
AnyStock 7.12.0 New Features
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Localization Support One of the main news of this release: support of localization using locale settings files and special formatting functions. Now our JS charting library allows to switch between 196 different regional settings, and all date/time chart elements update themselves. Take a look at AnyStock Localization demo>> Learn more about Localization Support>> |
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Range Selection UI Controlling data grouping and time interval is paramount when it comes to financial data and stock charts. We are happy to present a set of UI elements that help you to add range selection functionality to your applications. Take a look at Range Selection UI in the Gallery>> Learn more about Range Selection UI>> |
AnyMap 7.12.0 New Features
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Localization Support One of the main news of this release: support of localization using locale settings files and special formatting functions. Now our JS charting library allows to switch between 196 different regional settings, and all date/time chart elements update themselves. Take a look at AnyMap Localization demo>> Learn more about Localization Support>> |
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Map Grid (Meridians and Parallels) Showing meridians and parallels on a map greatly improves its design and provides a clear view in visualizations where latitude and longitude do matter. Map Grid (Meridians and Parallels) in the Gallery>> Learn more about Map Grid>> |
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Map Axes Map axes with latitude and longitude labels complement map grid showing meridians and parallels on a map. Geo Scale that controls Map Axes and grid allows to fine-tune the display and achieve a great variety of looks and feels for map visualizations. Learn more about Map Axes>> |
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Map Crosshair Map Crosshair is a visual position tracking element, especially useful in exploratory data analysis visualizations. It works nicely in conjunction with Map Grid and Map Axes. Take a look at Map Crosshair in the Gallery>> Learn more about Map Crosshair>> |
AnyGantt 7.12.0 New Features
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Brand New Resource Chart (Beta) We are doing our best to improve our products and this time we decided to take a fresh look at Gantt and Resource charts. We have studied how people manage projects and company resources, what they want to see, how they want to display things happening, and goals they want to achieve. As the result, we understood that we have to redesign Resource and Gantt Charts completely. In this release we present the beta version of new Resource Chart. Take a look at Resource Chart and Resource Chart with Time Tracking in the Gallery. Learn more about Resource Chart and Resource Chart with Time Tracking. |
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Calendar Support One of the main features of the new Resource Chart is the ability to set the calendar for all resources or some of them. You can configure weekends, holidays, time of availability, beginning of a calendar year, and so on. Learn more about the Calendar>> |
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Smart Timeline New Resource Chart features the improved timeline that looks nice with any data. This new Smart Timeline will be made interactive and available in Gantt Charts in the next update. Learn more about the Smart Timeline >> |
AnyChart version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/
AnyStock version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anystock/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/
- Categories: AnyChart Charting Component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Stock Charts
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AnyChart Open-Sources Powerful, Draw-Anything JS Graphics Library GraphicsJS
September 15th, 2016 by AnyChart TeamIt is a pleasure for us to announce this today! We have just launched GraphicsJS, a free, open-source, lightweight JavaScript library which allows you to draw any JS graphics and animation for your HTML5 projects very easily. It is significantly more powerful and feature-rich than Raphaël, BonsaiJS, and other formerly leading SVG/VML graphics solutions.
GraphicsJS has always been the graphics engine that our JavaScript (HTML5) charting libraries are built on – AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyGantt, and AnyMap. As a result, it already powers data visualization activities for many of you – Oracle, Microsoft, Volkswagen, AT&T, Samsung, BP, Bosch, Merck, Reuters, Bank of China, Lockheed Martin, and thousands of all the other highly respected AnyChart’s customers including more than 70% of Fortune 1000 companies.
Of course, data visualization is not the only but just one of multiple fields where the library of GraphicsJS can be helpful and even essential. Generally speaking, this solution can help you produce virtually anything graphical from scratch: static and animated images, cartoons, games, interactive infographics, mind maps, and many other amazing things in HTML5.
Key Features of JS Graphics Library
- Mighty line drawing abilities – Bézier curves, arcs, rectangles, and many other kinds of forms and deformations.
- Powerful text manipulation features – multiline texts, measurement, including width, height, as well as wrap, overflow, indent, spacing, align, etc.
- Virtual DOM for drawing fast and only what is necessary.
- Smart layering system with z-index.
- Transformation engine – embarrassing in-browser transformations are not used.
- Legacy browser support (Internet Explorer 6+).
- Concise and convenient JavaScript API with chaining support.
By the way, making our graphics engine open-source is just the beginning as – we are also pleased to tell you – AnyChart is going to open the source code of our charting libraries soon! We believe that our great developments in the fields of graphics and data visualization should be even more visible and reachable to any programmer from any part of the world, not to mention that we would love to allow the community to contribute.
Please refer to GraphicsJS.org to learn more about GraphicsJS. As always, the demos are available on our Playground (Graphics section). Also, let’s not forget about the Graphics Documentation and Graphics API Reference.
What’s more, the GraphicsJS library and all relevant samples can be freely downloaded and forked on GitHub.
- Categories: AnyChart Charting Component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, Charts and Art, Dashboards, Financial Charts, Gantt Chart, GraphicsJS, GraphJam, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Stock Charts, Third-Party Developers, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized
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AnyChart Charting Library 7.11.1 Available
September 2nd, 2016 by Margaret SkomorokhA hotfix for AnyChart charting library is now available: we have released AnyChart, AnyMap, AnyGantt, and AnyStock 7.11.1. Here is a full list of improvements and bug fixes:
All Products
Improvements
- Legend width/height behavior improved.
- Scatter Series behaviour made consistent with other series.
- Credits behaviour improved.
- The appendTheme() method added for easier management of themes.
- Beta version of the Data Adapter Module added for easier management of external files.
- Export Server can now return images as base64 strings or as shareable links.
Bug Fixes
- XML Schema validity problems fixed.
- Various minor Export Server issues fixed.
- Various minor Interactivity issues fixed.
- Inconsistent zIndex behaviour fixed.
- Various XML serialization/deserialization fixed.
- Various JSON serialization/deserialization fixed.
- The toXML() deserialization method no longer adds unnecessary data into XML.
AnyChart
Improvements
- Circular Gauge Ranges and Axis Bar can now be properly rounded.
Bug Fixes
- Pie events fixed.
- Funnel Chart label placement algorithm fixed.
- Series on/off problems fixed.
- 3D Chart events fixed.
- Context Menu in Linear Gauges fixed.
- Series Legend Interactivity issues fixed.
- Seat Map labels fixed.
- Legend Interactivity issues fixed.
- Issues with Ordinal Axis Labels fixed.
- Circular Gauge Gradient display issues fixed.
- Tree Map coloring issues fixed.
- Range Marker issues fixed.
AnyMap
Bug Fixes
- The remove() method problems fixed.
AnyGantt
Bug Fixes
- Problems with inheritance of PERT Chart settings fixed.
- PERT Chart export CSV issues fixed.
AnyStock
Improvements
- Overall Performance improved, especially in Firefox.
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/
AnyStock version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anystock/history/
Trial download of AnyChart charting library: https://www.anychart.com/download/
- Categories: AnyChart Charting Component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, Financial Charts, Gantt Chart, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Stock Charts
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