May 4th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Displaying and researching some Data Distribution and relationship between data sets instead of studying precise values in each category is a quite common task in data analysis. It can be solved with the help of the chart types that we are going to identify and explain in this article.
Depending on a situation – the kind of data you have and the specific questions you’d like it to provide answers to – you can pick one approach or another. Just be careful when choosing between one chart type and another for the subsequent data distribution analysis. You want the visualization to clarify data, not obscure it or deliver any sort of confusion. Well, simply make sure you understand the following aspects, mind all the details of your situation, and you will have no problem with visualizing data distribution correctly.
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May 3rd, 2017 by AnyChart Team
GraphicsJS, our powerful JavaScript drawing library that we open-sourced last year, has recently got an update to version 1.2.0. It is the next best news of 2017, a great addition to winning a Devies Award with GraphicsJS for the category “JavaScript Technologies” and to the 7.13.0/7.13.1 releases of our JS/HTML5 charting solutions AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyMap, and AnyGantt.
So, we invite you to take a very quick look at the most important updates (we’ll highlight the two below). And then – in case you want to feel the real power of JavaScript drawing and have not used GraphicsJS in your business or fun web projects yet – we are sharing a nice article published on SitePoint just recently. It is an introduction to GraphicsJS based on two tutorials. They will guide you through the most valuable features of this JavaScript drawing library and demonstrate them in action, and you’ll learn how to easily create a naïve art picture and a time-killer game.
JavaScript Drawing with GraphicsJS: Main Improvements
- Closure library and Closure compiler were updated to version 20161024.
- Enjoy an improved JavaScript drawing performance! In particular, we optimized the process of obtaining a link to a container for the stage. Also, resize events are now handled with the help of the Timer object, not the iFrame element.
Now, you are welcome to read the SitePoint article about GraphicsJS. Please do not forget to ask your questions, if any. You may do that by leaving a comment here right below the article.
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April 29th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
We are glad to present you new data visualization examples within the framework of the weekly recap. These charts – mostly interactive – will definitely catch your eye, if you haven’t seen them before.
The graphics shared today in Data Visualization Weekly are about:
- finding the craft beer brew capital of the U.S.,
- revealing how the date of Japan’s cherry blossom peak-bloom has shifted,
- exploring the evolution of industries atop the Fortune 500 list, and
- making sense of U.S. government spending data.
Now, let’s see all of those cool new data visualization examples.
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April 26th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
We are continuing the effort to better familiarize you with the world of chart types. This time let’s talk about good ways to visualize and explore Data Over Time.
Watching the change in data over time helps identify trends and dynamics in diverse timeline-based sets of values. Needless to say, choosing a right chart type is very important here. When applying an inappropriate form of visualization to your data, you might end up with an inaccurate idea of what happened in the past, what’s taking place now, and/or what will occur in the future. But we’ll do our best to help you avoid any mistakes in this field so you always make only right decisions based on your date/time data.
So, let’s get to the gist now.
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April 21st, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Welcome to the new Data Visualization Weekly collection of interesting chart visualizations of the latest 7 days! In this series, it’s always Friday. Not that we are now part of the T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant chain – not at all! But we usually publish DataViz Weekly posts on Friday, in the Friday mood. And our goal here is to let you heave a sigh of relief after another workweek and simply enjoy some cool chart visualization examples before going to a pub (or exactly from there!), home, or wherever else for a Friday night.
See below for four engaging data visualizations. In particular, there you’ll find the animated chart that became one of the most widely liked and shared tweets with third-party charts in our Twitter account‘s history. And it goes first.
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April 20th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Illustrating part-to-whole relationships for further analysis is a very popular objective in data visualization. Basically, it is one of the most widespread ones, e.g. along with data comparison. With that in mind, the second part of the Choose Right Chart Type for Data Visualization series on our blog focuses on how to display Data Composition properly.
In particular, this article will show you the best ways to present the share percentages of simple values, compositional patterns in large data sets and hierarchical data (also with subordination), and stages in a process.
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April 18th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers,” once wrote 16th-century English poet Thomas Tusser. Well, our customers already know that AnyChart’s April brings flowers, too! Last year we launched the great 7.10.0 version of the AnyChart JavaScript charts library and, basically, of our whole data visualization product family. Now, in the year of 2017, April brings you another great update.
So, please all greet the 7.13.1 release of AnyChart, AnyMap, AnyStock, and AnyGantt – our cute first spring flowers grown especially for you!
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April 14th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Tired after another workweek? Then now is a great time to lean back and relax and take a quick look at yet another set of interactive data visualization examples! We have shared these visualizations on social networks just recently. They got pretty much attention of our followers (and beyond). So their way to Data Visualization Weekly on the AnyChart blog was quite quick and simple.
Today we are presenting you with interactive visualizations of meteor streams, lynchings in America, JS quadrant chart of top 30 countries by quality of life plotted also according to their pollution indexes, and educational attainment in the United States.
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April 12th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
When it comes to creating data analytics and reporting solutions, choosing the right chart type for a certain data visualization task remains a common challenge. What do you pick for data comparison, studying distribution, observing data over time, or some other purpose? It can be very tricky! To help you overcome this challenge to the best effect, today we are launching a series of articles titled Choose Right Chart Type for Data Visualization. The series is designed to quickly explain what chart types you should pick for different purposes of data analysis. With that said, each article here will be devoted to a specific, yet still big question that you want your data to answer.
The current (first) guide of the series is all about chart types that work best for finding out the differences in data: Data Comparison. In fact, it is one of the most frequently established purposes of data analytics. And sometimes many people use wrong chart types to fulfil it correctly. Now, finally, let’s get to the very point and see what visualization forms work best for comparing data.
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April 7th, 2017 by AnyChart Team
Today’s Data Visualization Weekly issue is fully devoted to interactive maps. To put it precisely, we’ll highlight four of them this time. These maps have been popular on the Web and also most followed on our Facebook and Twitter accounts within the last days. So they’ve completely deserved to be mentioned here.
Here’s what interactive maps we are sharing with you today:
- Lead-Tainted Water Fountains in NYC Schools,
- Surging Seas,
- Asylum Seekers’ Paths, and
- China’s Regions and Counties.
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