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Instant Highcharts

By : Cyril Grandjean
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Instant Highcharts

By: Cyril Grandjean

Overview of this book

Nowadays, a lot of systems and tools are developed using web technologies. Customers need to analyze their data using charts on their computer or their mobile device. With the Highcharts library, it is possible to create highly customizable and interactive charts on any computer or a mobile device without installing any plugins. Instant Highcharts is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a step-by-step approach, which will help you to take advantage of the powerful features of Highcharts. With Instant Highcharts, you will learn everything you need to know to create your own dynamic charts with your own data inside your web application. Instant Highcharts will present you with different features available with Highcharts, and helps you to create your own chart. You will start with Highcharts installation and then learn to create your own customized column, bar, area, and pie charts with your data. You will learn to add some interactive functionality such as the zoom feature or to export your chart into a printable format. We will also give you tips that will help you to improve your skills with Highcharts.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

People and places you should get to know


If you need help with Highcharts, this section will be an invaluable reference.

Official sites

JSFiddle tool

When you will start to explore the Highcharts API documentation, you will find several links that will allow you to try some parts of Highcharts' API by using the JSFiddle tool (http://jsfiddle.net). These links will allow you to discover the meanings of each parameter in order to choose whether you want to implement it in your chart.

Highcharts API documentation

When you click on these links, you will be redirected to the JSFiddle website with some example code loaded. With this online tool, you will be able to modify some parameters of your chart for testing, and to see the results directly in your browser by clicking on the Run button.

JSFiddle online tool

By exploring these different links, and by trying yourself to modify a few options of Highcharts, you will be able to customize your chart according to your needs.

Articles and tutorials

Some screencasts display how to use Highcharts with the jQuery library, as well as other ways to create your chart with your data: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUpnKy5Si8zBCzuNydm4FUEHtwEQkgUqR.

Community

Blogs

The blog of Joe Kuan, author of the book Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing can be found at http://joekuan.wordpress.com.

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