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Stock Chart with Custom Time Intervals — JS Chart Tips

January 30th, 2025 by AnyChart Team

A custom data grouping time frame interval in a JavaScript stock chart with codeGrouping data points into appropriate time intervals is essential for making stock charts more readable and insightful. While raw data may be collected at a high frequency, such as every minute, financial analysts and traders often need to view broader trends, where grouping data into 5-minute, 15-minute, 1-hour, 1-day, and other time frames can provide clearer insights. In this edition of JS Chart Tips, we will walk you through the process of setting a custom time interval for a stock chart using our JavaScript charting library.

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Integrating AnyChart JS Charts in Python Django Financial Trading Dashboard

December 3rd, 2024 by Michael Whittle

Financial Trading Dashboard Built with Python Django and AnyChart JavaScript ChartsWe are pleased to share an insightful article by Michael Whittle, a seasoned solution architect and developer with over 20 years of experience. Originally published on EODHD.com, it explores how he integrated our JavaScript charting library into a financial trading dashboard built with Python Django. Michael also shares his experience migrating a treemap from D3.js to AnyChart and explains why he chose our solution for implementing a stock chart, highlighting the intuitive code and enhanced functionality. Read on to discover how you can elevate your financial data visualizations in Python Django web applications with AnyChart JS Charts.

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Gantt Chart Legend — JS Chart Tips

November 21st, 2024 by AnyChart Team

A JavaScript Gantt chart with a legend, displayed with its codeLegend is a vital element in many charts, helping viewers quickly understand what each visual component represents. However, it is not always a must-have for every chart type. For instance, Gantt charts often work perfectly fine without a legend, so it is not enabled in our JavaScript Gantt Chart by default. That said, creating one is straightforward. Right now, we will show you how to add a legend to a Gantt chart — join us as we continue our JS Chart Tips series, sharing quick solutions inspired by real customer queries!

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3 Ways to Set Height and Width of JavaScript Charts — JS Chart Tips

October 17th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

JavaScript chart with custom width and height, showing codeNavigating chart dimensions is key in crafting user-friendly visual presentations, especially when integrating multiple charts into an existing web page or app screen. In our JavaScript chart tutorials, charts are usually showcased as stretching across an entire web page. But it’s far from rocket science to make them smaller. In today’s JS Chart Tips, we explore three effective ways to resize your charts by adjusting their width and height.

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JavaScript Line Chart with Annotations — JS Chart Tips

October 10th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

JavaScript Line Chart with Annotations Shown with CodeAnnotations in charts, such as shapes or text markers, can greatly enhance data narratives by providing more context directly on the visual plane. Thus, it’s no surprise that the ability to add them is one of the most sought-after features of our JavaScript charting library. Although typically used in stock charts, annotations can be just as effective in standard graphics for highlighting specific data points or trends. In this edition of JS Chart Tips, you’ll learn how to add annotations to a basic line chart.

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Creating Timeline Chart of Roman History Using JavaScript

October 3rd, 2024 by AnyChart Team

A laptop with an interactive timeline chart of Roman history, from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire, created using JavaScript in this tutorialEver caught yourself thinking about the Roman Empire more often than you’d like to admit? You’re not alone, and we’ve got just the thing for you! With the recent AnyChart JS Charts 8.13.0 release, we’ve enhanced our timeline chart for better support of historical data visualization. We’d love to showcase this improvement in action.

We’ve added a Roman History Timeline to our gallery of timeline chart examples, and we now invite you to discover how it was developed from scratch. In this in-depth JavaScript charting tutorial, we’ll cover everything from A to Z, meticulously guiding you through each step — from setting up the HTML environment to adding detailed data and customizing the visualization to make the chart both informative and engaging. The final result is an interactive timeline that you can proudly call your own Roman Empire.

So, whether you’re a history enthusiast caught up in the recent meme trend or a developer eager to expand your data visualization skills, follow along and learn how to create compelling historical timeline charts using JavaScript!

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Figures Without Any Charts — JS Chart Tips

September 23rd, 2024 by AnyChart Team

Figures Without Any ChartsExploring minimalistic data presentation, this entry of JS Chart Tips shifts focus from complex visualizations to effectively showing raw numerical data. While our JavaScript charting library is designed to enable compelling graphical data displays, sometimes simplicity provides clearer insights. Reflecting on a recent customer request handled by our Support Team, now we’ll delve into how to display figures in a straightforward and direct way without creating any charts, offering a streamlined alternative that may be suitable in specific contexts.

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JavaScript Pie Chart with Radial Scale — JS Chart Tips

September 9th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

JavaScript Pie Chart with Radial Scale Demonstrated in This Issue of JS Chart Tips on AnyChart BlogWelcome to JS Chart Tips, our new blog series where we showcase practical solutions to common and unique challenges our Support Team has helped customers overcome. This time, we’re eager to explain how to build a sophisticated circular diagram that may resemble a pie chart with a radial scale. Just a heads-up: this type of visualization is technically a polar column chart.

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JavaScript Gantt Chart with Custom Data Grid Header Font — JS Chart Tips

August 20th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

A screenshot of a JavaScript Gantt chart with custom data grid header font, displayed with JS code, explained in this edition of JS Chart Tips on AnyChart BlogHey everyone! We’re excited to launch a new regular feature on our blog called JS Chart Tips. In this series, we’ll share some recent cases handled by our Support Team for users of our JavaScript charting library, highlighting both frequent questions and those unique solutions that shouldn’t remain hidden.

Whether these scenarios directly resonate with a challenge you’re facing or simply spark an idea for your current or future data visualization development tasks, we hope you’ll find valuable insights. Each entry will include code snippets and JS chart examples to illustrate the solutions. If you get additional questions or need more details, simply comment below or contact our Support Team directly. We’re here to help enhance your JavaScript charting experience!

Without further ado, welcome to the first edition of JS Chart Tips! Today, you’ll learn how to customize the font of the data grid header in a JavaScript Gantt chart.

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Pivot Table vs. Decomposition Tree: Advancing Data Insights

June 27th, 2024 by AnyChart Team

Comparing a pivot table with a decomposition tree for data analysisIn the evolving data landscape, the pivot table has long been a cornerstone of the data analyst’s toolkit. Traditionally used to summarize datasets in a condensed tabular form, pivot tables facilitate quick overviews and basic drill-down capabilities. However, as data sets grow larger and more complex, the static and manual nature of pivot tables can limit their effectiveness.

Enter the decomposition tree, an advanced data visualization technique that not only presents data but also uncovers deeper patterns and insights ad-hoc, all through its dynamic, interactive hierarchical structure. As a relatively new tool in the realm of data analysis and business intelligence, it is increasingly used as an effective alternative to a pivot table yet still often underrated, given its inherent potential.

This article explores several reasons why decomposition trees can be advantageous over traditional pivot tables, illustrated with real-world use cases.

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