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Visualizing Data About Diversity, Shipwrecks, Harassments, and NBA Shots — DataViz Weekly

May 4th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Visualizing Data About Diversity, Shipwrecks, Harassments, and NBA Shots — DataViz WeeklyAt a time when data is everywhere, anyone can find and look into various statistics about literally anything. But having something does not necessarily mean being able to make the best use of it. In our DataViz Weekly feature, we show you examples of how visualizing data can be helpful in (quickly) delivering much greater insights than raw numbers.

From today’s article, you’ll learn about four new interesting visualizations:

  • map of diversity and segregation in America;
  • sexual harassment complaints in statistics and reality;
  • map of shipwrecks in Irish waters;
  • NBA shot charts printed in 3D.

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Creating Half Polar Chart with JavaScript — Challenge AnyChart!

May 2nd, 2018 by Irina Maximova

Half Polar Chart — Challenge AnyChart!
Challenges are always fun, and we at AnyChart adore taking them up from our customers. AnyChart Support Team is happy to show how flexible AnyChart JS Charts are. Today’s Challenge AnyChart tutorial is about JS polar charts. Spend about 5 minutes and you’ll find out how to draw a beautiful polar chart, but display only its one half, making it a half polar chart.

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Data Visualizations About Manhattan Buildings, Web Search, Chinese Expansion, and Research Productivity — DataViz Weekly

April 27th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Data Visualizations About Manhattan Buildings, Web Search, Chinese Expansion, and Research Productivity — DataViz WeeklyDataViz Weekly is here, bringing you another selection of data visualizations that we’ve found worth seeing. All these pieces were published only a short time ago.

In this article, you will find graphics about the following:

  • Manhattan buildings;
  • China’s expanding presence in Europe;
  • Google’s true dominance in the search market;
  • research productivity.

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Visualizations About Climate Change, Immigration, Wealth, and Differences — DataViz Weekly

April 20th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Visualizations About Climate Change, Immigration, Wealth, and Differences — DataViz WeeklyIt’s Friday, and it’s DataViz Weekly on the AnyChart blog. Let’s take a look at some fresh cool visualizations that have caught our eye these days.

Here’s a quick list of what infographics and charts we are featuring in today’s article:

  • climate change impact on what we eat;
  • immigration and crime in America;
  • where rich people live;
  • visualizing differences in data.

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Charts and Infographics About Apollo 11, Investment, Pay Gap, Coffee — DataViz Weekly

April 13th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Charts and Infographics About Apollo 11, Investment, Pay Gap, Coffee — DataViz WeeklyAnother week-long wait is over, and Data Visualization Weekly is back to our blog! We’ve put together a new selection of interesting charts and infographics that saw the light just recently. So chill out and look at the following cool visualizations:

  • all Apollo 11 conversations;
  • how different generations would invest $10,000;
  • gender pay gap in Great Britain;
  • coffee flavor wheel.

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How AnyChart Team Makes Use of Clojure and ClojureScript

April 11th, 2018 by Irina Maximova

How AnyChart Team Makes Use of Clojure and ClojureScript
The prime directive of AnyChart team is to develop the best interactive charts possible. While doing so, we create and use a number of different tools and technologies, and we always search for the new technologies that may help us and make our work more efficient. In this article, we want to talk about the way we make use of Clojure and ClojureScript, and why.

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Visualizations About Music, Death, Bombs, and Brexit – DataViz Weekly

April 6th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Visualizations About Music, Death, Bombs, and Brexit – DataViz WeeklyData visualization keeps gaining popularity as a great way to represent information in an insightful manner, and a lot of charts and infographics come out every day. We are glad to continue our DataViz Weekly series, helping you not miss out on some interesting visualizations.

Today, we are sharing visualizations of data about the following:

  • Southern United States’ music in 1939;
  • leading causes of death in the US in 1980–2014, by county;
  • nuclear bomb effect on your neighborhood;
  • opinions on Brexit in the UK.

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Data Visualization Pieces to Check out at Weekend – DataViz Weekly

March 30th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Data Visualization Pieces to Check out at Weekend – DataViz WeeklyA new collection of fresh data visualization pieces that we’ve found out there on the Web just recently is already here! Check out the new DataViz Weekly post on our blog, putting a spotlight on some cool charts about the following:

  • income mobility of different groups;
  • job options by age;
  • drinking habits in the UK;
  • personal preferences of Republicans and Democrats.

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JavaScript Chart Libraries AnyChart, AnyGantt, AnyStock and AnyMap Receive Major 8.2.0 Update

March 27th, 2018 by AnyChart Team

JavaScript Chart Libraries AnyChart, AnyGantt, AnyStock and AnyMap Receive Major 8.2.0 UpdateThe time has come for another major update of our JavaScript chart libraries, recognized the best in JavaScript technologies earlier this year!

Meet version 8.2.0 of AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyGantt and AnyMap!

To start with, here’s a quick list of what major new cool features have been delivered to our interactive data visualization solutions with this new release:

  • Sunburst Chart;
  • negative logarithmic scale;
  • crosshair multiple labels;
  • minimum/maximum labels;
  • new technical indicators and additional touch support in stock charts;
  • custom drawing, data grid live editor, and new timeline in Gantt charts

Now, let’s take a closer look at each of the major news of AnyChart 8.2.0 and then see what’s next on our roadmap.

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Visualizing Spring, Wealth, Pay and Population – DataViz Weekly

March 23rd, 2018 by AnyChart Team

Visualizing Spring, Wealth, Pay and Population – DataViz WeeklyHey everybody, are you ready for another dose of interesting data visualizations? The new DataViz Weekly collection is already here! So – no matter whether it’s for fun, inspiration, or both – you are welcome to take a look.

Today in Data Visualization Weekly:

  • “first leaf” appearance across the United States;
  • different future of black and white boys raised in wealthy families;
  • the pay of CEO vs. median employees in publicly traded companies;
  • US population in the Alperin-Sheriff data set.

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