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Creating Interactive Charts in AngularJS

January 28, 2016January 30, 2016 sameer 8 Comments

Data in the form of rows and columns is boring, and it’s difficult to derive insights from it in that form. Add interactive charts to it, and you make it easier for everybody to make sense of it. You start seeing patterns that were impossible to spot by looking at raw data alone. But how do you add interactive charts to your website?

Well, that’s what this tutorial will teach you. In this post I will walk you through the process of creating interactive charts in one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks – AngularJS. We will be implementing charts via FusionCharts’ JavaScript charts package. And to make our job easier, we will make use of its AngularJS charts plugin.
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Display line and area charts in PHP and MySQL

February 5, 2015March 21, 2015 sameer 4 Comments

Most data in any web application is usually sourced from a database. Usually some data transformation is required before we can visualize the required data. Most programmers however wanting to display visualizations or charts shy away from the task as there are a number of intermediate steps required to display the visualization. Morris charts however makes the task easier. We only need to directly pass the MySQL queried rows to the Morris charts javascript and we are done. Morris Charts is one of my favorite tools to display dashboard visualization on the web.
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6 excellent charting libraries for php

March 15, 2009October 31, 2014 sameer 31 Comments

ico_stacked Charts are an indispensable part of any data visualization work. People can grok visual representation of data easily than a textual variety. Today there are a huge number of free chart libraries available to display visualizations on websites. Below is a small list of some of the libraries available for displaying charts using php.