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HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook

You're reading from   HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook Get a complete grounding in the exciting visual world of Canvas and HTML5 using this recipe-packed cookbook. Learn to create charts and graphs, draw complex shapes, add interactivity, work with Google maps, and much more.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693707
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drawing Shapes in Canvas 2. Advanced Drawing in Canvas FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Cartesian-based Graphs 4. Let's Curve Things Up 5. Getting Out of the Box 6. Bringing Static Things to Life 7. Depending on the Open Source Sphere 8. Playing with Google Charts 9. Using Google Maps 10. Maps in Action Index

Making a sunburst chart with InfoVis


Another really cool library is InfoVis. If I had to categorize the library, I would say it's about connections. When you review the rich samples provided by Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, you will find a lot of relational datatypes that are very unique.

This library is distributed freely through Sencha legal owners. (The copyright is easy to follow, but please review the notes for this and any open source project that you encounter.)

We will start with one of his base samples—the sunburst example from the source files. I've made a few changes to give it a new personality. The basic idea of a sunburst chart is to showcase relationships between nodes. While a tree is an ordered parent-child relationship, the relationships in a sunbust chart are bidirectional. A node can have a relationship with any other node, and it can be a two-way or one-way relationship. A dataset that is perfect for this is the example of the total exports of a country—lines from one country...

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