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Learning Highcharts 4

You're reading from   Learning Highcharts 4 Design eye-catching and interactive JavaScript charts for your web page with Highcharts, one of the leading tools in web charting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287451
Length 478 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joe Kuan Joe Kuan
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Preface 1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations FREE CHAPTER 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

Highcharts Cloud Service

In this section, we will review a brand new online chart service developed by the Highcharts team, Highcharts Cloud Service (http://cloud.highcharts.com). The following screenshot shows the initial welcome screen:

Highcharts Cloud Service

Highcharts Cloud Service is a major milestone in terms of expanding the product line. It is designed for users to:

  • Create HTML5 charts even without any JavaScript or Highcharts knowledge (in SIMPLE mode)
  • Prototype their charts interactively without any installation and setting up on the web server and Highcharts
  • Embed charts in online articles, applications, or web pages with a simple hyperlink
  • Store their charts in the cloud rather than locally
  • Share their charts easily with other people

The following is a screenshot of a news website linking a chart created from the cloud service:

Highcharts Cloud Service

Let's try to create our first chart using the cloud service. The web interface is wizard-based and intuitive for any non-technical users. The following is the initial screen of...

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