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Learning Highcharts 4

Learning Highcharts 4 - Second Edition

By : Joe Kuan
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Learning Highcharts 4

Learning Highcharts 4

4.5 (2)
By: Joe Kuan
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Overview of this book

The book is aimed at all levels of readers. Beginners can learn the basic configurations and step-by-step approaches in creating charts or Highcharts cloud. For intermediate and advanced readers, the book explores the APIs, events, server-side operations and plugins.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Web Charts
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1. Web Charts
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A short history of web charting
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The rise of JavaScript and HTML5
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JavaScript charts on the market
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Why Highcharts?
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Highcharts – a quick tutorial
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Summary
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2. Highcharts Configurations
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2. Highcharts Configurations
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Configuration structure
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Understanding Highcharts' layout
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Framing the chart with axes
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Revisiting the series config
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Exploring PlotOptions
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Styling tooltips
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Animating charts
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Expanding colors with gradients
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Zooming data with the drilldown feature
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3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts
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3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts
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Introducing line charts
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Highlighting negative values and raising the base level
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Sketching an area chart
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Mixing line and area series
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Combining the scatter and area series
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Summary
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4. Bar and Column Charts
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4. Bar and Column Charts
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Introducing column charts
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Introducing bar charts
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Constructing a mirror chart
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Converting a single bar chart into a horizontal gauge chart
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Sticking the charts together
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Summary
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5. Pie Charts
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5. Pie Charts
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Understanding the relationship between chart, pie, and series
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Plotting simple pie charts – single series
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Plotting multiple pies in a chart – multiple series
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Preparing a donut chart – multiple series
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Building a chart with multiple series types
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Summary
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6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts
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6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts
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Loading gauge, polar, and range charts
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Plotting a speedometer gauge chart
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Plotting the solid gauge chart
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Converting a spline chart to a polar/radar chart
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Plotting range charts with market index data
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Using a radial gradient on a gauge chart
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7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts
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7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts
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The bubble chart
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Understanding the box plot chart
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The error bar chart
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8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts
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8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts
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Constructing a waterfall chart
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Constructing a funnel chart
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Joining both waterfall and funnel charts
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Plotting a commercial pyramid chart
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Exploring a heatmap chart with inflation data
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Experimenting with dataClasses and nullColor options in a heatmap
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Summary
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9. 3D Charts
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9. 3D Charts
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What a Highcharts 3D chart is and isn't
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Experimenting with 3D chart orientation
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Configuring the 3D chart background
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Plotting the column, pie, donut, and scatter series in 3D charts
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Navigating with 3D charts
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10. Highcharts APIs
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10. Highcharts APIs
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Understanding the Highcharts class model
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Using the Highcharts APIs
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11. Highcharts Events
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11. Highcharts Events
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Introducing Highcharts events
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Portfolio history example
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Stock growth chart example
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Summary
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12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile
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12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile
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A short introduction to jQuery Mobile
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Understanding mobile page structure
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Understanding page initialization
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Linking between mobile pages
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Highcharts in touch-screen environments
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Integrating Highcharts and jQuery Mobile using an Olympic medals table application
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Drilling down for data with the point click event
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Building a dynamic content dialog with the point click event
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Applying the gesturechange (pinch actions) event to a pie chart
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13. Highcharts and Ext JS
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13. Highcharts and Ext JS
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A short introduction to Sencha Ext JS
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A quick tour of Ext JS components
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The Highcharts extension
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A commercial RIA with Highcharts – Profiler
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14. Server-side Highcharts
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14. Server-side Highcharts
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Running Highcharts on the server side
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Highcharts on the server side
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Running the Highcharts server script
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15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins
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15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins
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Highcharts export server – export.highcharts.com
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Highcharts Cloud Service
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Highcharts plugins
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Index
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Index

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