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Learning Highcharts 4

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Published in Jan 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783287451

Pages 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Data Visualization

Author (1):

Joe Kuan

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Learning Highcharts 4

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Web Charts

2. Highcharts Configurations

3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts

4. Bar and Column Charts

5. Pie Charts

6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts

7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts

8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts

9. 3D Charts

10. Highcharts APIs

11. Highcharts Events

12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile

13. Highcharts and Ext JS

14. Server-side Highcharts

15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins

Index

Chapter 1. Web Charts

In this chapter, you will learn the general background of web charts. This includes a short history of how web charts used to be made before Ajax and HTML5 became the new standard. The recent advances in JavaScript programming will be briefly discussed. Then, SVG support and the new HTML5 feature canvas, the main drive behind JavaScript charts, are introduced and demonstrated. This is followed by a quick guide to the other JavaScript graphing packages that are available on the market. Finally, we are introduced to Highcharts and will explain the advantages of using Highcharts over other products. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

A short history of web charting
The rise of JavaScript and HTML5
JavaScript charts on the market
Why Highcharts?

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Authors (1)

Joe Kuan

Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.

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