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Creating JavaScript Column and Bar Charts on COVID-19 Data

April 6th, 2020 by Jay Stevenson

Laptop with a JavaScript chart visualizing the latest COVID-19 data illustrating a tutorial on how to create JavaScript column and bar chartsNeed compelling JS charts for your website or app? Start with the basics! Complete this quick data visualization tutorial and you’ll learn how to easily create JavaScript column and bar charts that will look great in any HTML5-based project, allowing for easy comparisons.

Chart examples to be built and demonstrated in this tutorial will be visualizing the latest novel coronavirus cases data from JHU CSSE as COVID-19 is the most topical issue nowadays.

Keep reading and you’ll see JS charting is actually very simple. Especially if you have at least a very basic understanding of programming (more than that is awesome but far from necessary).

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Social Distancing in Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly

April 3rd, 2020 by AnyChart Team

Social Distancing in Data Visualizations — DataViz WeeklyMany health and epidemiology experts consider social distancing to be the most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19 at the current stage. But does it really work and help?

In today’s DataViz Weekly, we put a focus on data visualizations — charts and maps — on where we, in the United States, have been on social distancing. The following projects deserved to get featured in this special “#StayHome” edition:

  • The Social Distancing of America” — Reuters
  • Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spread” — NYT
  • Social Distancing Scoreboard” — Unacast
  • COVID-19 Projections Assuming Full Social Distancing Through May 2020” — IHME, UW Medicine

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How to Configure Project Gantt Chart Labels in Qlik Sense

April 1st, 2020 by AnyChart Team

A tutorial showing how to configure Project Gantt Chart labels in Qlik SenseWe continue a series of tutorials delving into the details of how to create Gantt charts in Qlik Sense and customize them using our intuitive AnyGantt Extension. This time, let’s look at configuring Gantt chart labels.

You can watch the video version of this tutorial or keep reading to see it in the text and pictures.

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Creative Visualizations on Climate, Protests, Jobs, and Wildlife — DataViz Weekly

March 27th, 2020 by AnyChart Team

Pictures of creative visualizations on climate, protests, jobs, and wildlife highlighted in new DataViz WeeklyThe new issue of DataViz Weekly puts a spotlight on some of the most interesting new creative visualizations from around the Web. Last week, we made a focus on COVID-19 charts. This time, we get along without the coronavirus subject. Well, mostly.

Here is what’s on DataViz Weekly this Friday:

  • Winter temperatures in the northern hemisphere — The Economist
  • Mass political protests worldwide — Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Spike in joblessness in the United States of America — The New York Times
  • Wyoming wildlife corridors — The Washington Post

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Making JS Candlestick Chart in Four Simple Steps

March 25th, 2020 by Anastasia Zoumpliou

A JS Candlestick Chart on the screen of a laptopDo you have trading data, looking for a way to effectively visualize it for your website or app project? If so, a JS candlestick chart could be your best pick. This tutorial will break down the process needed to create such a chart into simple steps and provide a detailed explanation of the code. Keep reading even if you are new to programming, because only a basic understanding is needed to follow along and master such a JavaScript (HTML5) based data visualization technique.

Also called a Japanese candlestick chart, this chart type is one of the most popular forms of financial and stock data visualization. Each candlestick represents information about the open, high, low, and close price of the day. Candlestick charts are widely used in technical analysis of price movement patterns.

Complete this tutorial and you will be able to create a compelling interactive candlestick chart in JavaScript real quick, with ease.

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Coronavirus in US in Charts and Maps — DataViz Weekly

March 20th, 2020 by AnyChart Team

Coronavirus in the United States of America in data visualizations, charts and maps, in a special edition of DataViz Weekly COVID-19 in USAs the novel coronavirus pandemic is in full swing, COVID-19 is now by far the most topical issue on the global agenda. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of the data visualization projects we’ve come across this week are about the outbreak. That’s why the new DataViz Weekly article is entirely devoted to the same subject — the coronavirus.

We are quite sure many of you have already seen some if not all of the best dashboards, charts, and trackers of the global COVID-19 outbreak from Johns Hopkins University, The New York Times, Financial Times, Business Insider, The Guardian, Bloomberg, and others. Awesome animated simulations from The Washington Post’s Harry Stevens, showing why epidemics like this spread exponentially and how social distancing could help to flatten the curve of COVID-19 cases, have almost certainly came to your attention and does not need to be presented additionally.

Headquartered in the United States, we decided to find out more about what has been going on about COVID-19 in America. Join us on a review of four interesting (though sometimes a bit frightening) data graphics features created by top media outlets, which provide insight into where the U.S. stands — from the perspective of cases and tests (Politico), scenarios (TIME), and hospital bed capacity (The Upshot by NYT), as well as compared to the rest of the world (BuzzFeed News). Check out the special “COVID-19 in US” edition of DataViz Weekly on the AnyChart blog.

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How to Add Dimensions and Measures in Project Gantt Chart in AnyGantt Extension for Qlik Sense

March 17th, 2020 by AnyChart Team

How to Add Dimensions and Measures in Project Gantt Chart in AnyGantt Extension for Qlik SenseWe’ve made a new tutorial on building charts in Qlik Sense. This one sheds light on how to add dimensions and measures creating a Project Gantt chart using the AnyGantt extension.

The tutorial is available in the video and text-and-pictures versions — choose one or check out both!

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Interesting New Visualizations on COVID-19, Income, Hockey, and Internet — DataViz Weekly

March 13th, 2020 by AnyChart Team

Interesting New Visualizations on COVID-19, Income, Hockey, and Internet — DataViz WeeklyWe continue to introduce you to interesting new visualizations from around the Web. These are great illustrations of how data becomes easier to make sense of when it’s represented in the right charts and maps. Check out the new DataViz Weekly article highlighting another four projects:

  • Call to action on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) — Tomas Pueyo
  • Income estimates for small areas in England and Wales — ONS
  • Hockey goals — Georgios Karamanis
  • Inclusive Internet Index 2020 — EIU

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AnyGantt Extension NOW Available in Qlik Sense Cloud Edition! [+ How-to-Install Video]

March 12th, 2020 by AnyChart Team

AnyGantt Extension for Qlik by AnyChart is Now Supported in Qlik Sense Cloud EditionGreat news for Qlik users! AnyGantt Extension for Qlik Sense is now available in the cloud!

As of February 2020, customers using Qlik Sense in the cloud can benefit from 3rd party extensions such as those by AnyChart, a trusted Qlik Technology Partner.

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Fresh Visualization Projects on Super Tuesday, Cost of Living in Germany, London Cycling, and NO2 in China — DataViz Weekly

March 6th, 2020 by AnyChart Team

Fresh Visualization Projects on Super Tuesday, Cost of Living in Germany, London Cycling, and NO2 in China, in DataViz WeeklyToday is Friday. We have already chosen four new stunning visualization examples and are excited to show you them! Look how powerful the right charts and maps can be when you need to explore and communicate data. Here’s a quick list of the fresh visualization projects this new DataViz Weekly blog post puts a spotlight on:

  • Takeaways from Super Tuesday — The New York Times
  • Cost of living in German cities — Fabian Nobis
  • Cycling all streets in central London — Davis Vilums
  • Nitrogen dioxide over China and Wuhan — NASA Earth Observatory

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