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Charts and Graphs Plotting with JQuery plugins

Richard Wong 21 September, 2008

Charts are important in visualising data to give a more profound understanding of the nature of given problem. A good charting solution for should render charts dynamically from raw data and allow multiple type of data presentation.

Traditionally we generate charts on the server-side but that means it will take up more bandwidth by the image all the way across the internet. Ideally we would just send the data to the browser and it will render the chart. With the advance in javascript and browser support, we have many powerful chart components out there based on Javascript. Now with the help of javascript frameworks, we can create charts in just a few lines of code.

Here we present you with 3 top jQuery plugins for plotting charts.

fgCharting

fgCharting is a simple plugin that provide you with 7 types of graphs such as line, bar, pie, filled lines. However, the special concept for this plugins is that it is accessible. It can read data from HTML table on the page and render them.

Website: Accessible_Charts_using_Canvas_and_jQuery

Download: fgCharting.jQuery.js

Flot

is a very powerful plotting library allowing you to create attractive and interactive graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on the fly. It has advance feature like zooming and highlighting but still easy to use.

Website:

Download:

Sparklines

Sparkine allow you to generate small inline charts using data supplied either inline HTML or via javascript. It provide 6 types of charts such as line, bar, tristate, discrete, bullet or pie.

Website: jQuery Sparkine

Download: jquery.sparkline.js