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FusionCharts Beginner's Guide: The Official Guide for FusionCharts Suite

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FusionCharts Beginner's Guide: The Official Guide for FusionCharts Suite

Overview of this book

User experience can make or break any app these days, no matter whether it's a commercial product or an internal solution. While most web applications out there are boring and outdated when it comes to their charting, you can make yours both stunning and powerful using FusionCharts Suite. Once you have mastered it, you can give your users a delightful reporting experience in no time at all. FusionCharts Beginner's Guide is a practical, step-by-step guide to using FusionCharts Suite for creating delightful web reports and dashboards. Getting you started quickly, you will learn advanced reporting capabilities like drill-down and JavaScript integration, and charting best practices to make the most out of it. Filled with examples, real-life tips and challenges, this book is the firstofitstype in the visualization industry. The book teaches you to create delightful reports and dashboards for your web applications assuming no previous knowledge of FusionCharts Suite. It gets your first chart up in 15 minutes after which you can play around with different chart types and customize them. You will also learn how to create a powerful reporting experience using drill-down and advanced JavaScript capabilities. You will also connect your charts to server-side scripts pulling data from databases. Finally you round up the experience learning reporting best practices including right chart type selection and practical usability tips. By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation in FusionCharts Suite and data visualization itself. You will be able to give your users a delightful reporting experience, from developers to management alike.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
FusionCharts
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating charts with multiple series


In our previous example, we had built a Column 3D chart with three columns, each column representing the revenue for a specific year. Now, Harry needs to see how the revenue is split across food products and non-food products, each year. He needs this to monitor growth of both the segments over the years. The data for this example is provided in the following table:

Year

Sales of Food Products

Sales of Non-Food Products

2009

892500

595000

2010

1407400

693200

2011

1565000

880400

The sum of food products and non-food products adds up to the total revenue per year, which we had earlier plotted. The set of data points representing one of these segments, says food-products, is a data series, or a dataset in FusionCharts XML terminology. We have two data series in our next chart that would be rendered side-by-side, as in the following screenshot: