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Learning jqPlot

Learning jqPlot

By : Scott Gottreu
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Learning jqPlot

Learning jqPlot

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By: Scott Gottreu
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer with a good understanding of JavaScript and jQuery and have been burdened with the task of analyzing and presenting some data, this book will provide you with the start you need to create some very attractive data visualizations.
Table of Contents (14 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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1. Getting Started
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1. Getting Started
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Reviewing the components of a chart
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Getting a promotion
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Creating a jqPlot chart
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Passing in both x and y values
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Using dates for the x axis
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Adding multiple data series
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Adding a legend
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Learning questions
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Summary
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2. More Line Charts, Area Charts, and Scatter Plots
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2. More Line Charts, Area Charts, and Scatter Plots
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Working with remote data sources
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Adding a fill between two lines
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Understanding area and stacked area charts
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Creating an area chart
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Creating a stacked area chart with revenue
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Understanding trend lines
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Adding trend lines
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Understanding scatterplot charts
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Extending the data renderer
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Creating a scatterplot chart
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Learning questions
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Summary
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3. Bar Charts and Digging into Data
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3. Bar Charts and Digging into Data
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Building bars of data
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Adding styles to our bar chart
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Creating charts with multiple data series
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Adding trend lines to selected product categories
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Expanding our datasets with event handlers
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Adding an event handler for our stacked area chart
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Summary
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4. Horizontal and Stacked Bar Charts
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4. Horizontal and Stacked Bar Charts
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Turning our chart on its side
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Removing axis labels and adding point labels
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Adding a threshold to our chart
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Summary
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5. Pie Charts and Donut Charts
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5. Pie Charts and Donut Charts
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Limitations of pie charts
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Making a pie chart with many data points
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Styling our chart and adding functionality
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Building a pie chart with empty wedges
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Creating a pie chart for each division with product category revenue
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Building a donut chart to show web browser usage
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Learning questions
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6. Spice Up Your Charts with Animation, Tooltips, and Highlighting
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6. Spice Up Your Charts with Animation, Tooltips, and Highlighting
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Using the cursor plugin to see the data behind our charts
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Making the tooltip follow the mouse and adding cursor lines
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Connecting the cursor with the legend
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Using the highlighter plugin
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Extending the highlighter plugin to the legend
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Animating line charts
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Animating bar charts with varying speeds
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Learning questions
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Summary
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7. Stock Market Charts – OHLC and Candlestick Charts
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7. Stock Market Charts – OHLC and Candlestick Charts
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Looking at the employee stock option plan
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Explaining OHLC charts
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Explaining candlestick charts
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Building an OHLC chart with last quarter's stock data
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Building a candlestick chart with filtered data
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Zooming in on a colored candlestick chart
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Adding tooltips to canvas overlay lines
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Modifying the data array and the tooltip
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8. Bubble Charts, Block Plots, and Waterfalls
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8. Bubble Charts, Block Plots, and Waterfalls
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Creating a waterfall chart with expenses against revenue
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Building a bubble chart
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Building a block plot
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Understanding waterfall charts
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Creating a waterfall chart showing expenses against revenue
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9. Showing Real-time Data with Our Charts
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9. Showing Real-time Data with Our Charts
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Creating a meter gauge chart with Wi-Fi users
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Refreshing our chart from remote data
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Using the replot method to change remote datasets
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Dynamically building our chart when the page loads
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Learning questions
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10. Beautifying and Extending Your Charts
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10. Beautifying and Extending Your Charts
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Nailing down the charts for our dashboard
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Changing the background color of our chart
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Canvas versus CSS
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Using the second xaxis and smoothing lines
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Setting negative colors on a bar chart
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Creating reusable plot objects
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Using objects to piece together our chart
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Reaping the benefits of the DRY code
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11. Bringing it All Together
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11. Bringing it All Together
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Combining four charts into a dashboard
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Creating a divisional dashboard
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Mixing renderers
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Adding extra canvas elements
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Modifying an existing plugin
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Learning questions
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Summary
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A. Answers
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Chapter 1, Getting Started
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Chapter 2, More Line Charts, Area Charts, and Scatter Plots
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Chapter 3, Bar Charts and Digging into Data
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Chapter 4, Horizontal and Stacked Bar Charts
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Chapter 5, Pie Charts and Donut Charts
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Chapter 6, Spice Up Your Charts with Animation, Tooltips, and Highlighting
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Chapter 7, Stock Market Charts – OHLC and Candlestick Charts
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Chapter 8, Bubble Charts, Block Plots, and Waterfalls
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Chapter 9, Showing Real-time Data with Our Charts
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Chapter 10, Beautifying and Extending Your Charts
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Chapter 11, Bringing it All Together
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Index
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Index

Summary

We started this chapter by looking at how canvas elements work. We discussed what parts of a jqPlot chart can be modified using CSS and which have to be modified by JavaScript on the canvas. We looked at the x2axis element and how to smooth lines. We also changed the default colors for negative numbers within our series.

We then created a function expression to create default options for our bar charts. Then with our default options set, we passed the object into another function to style our charts. With all this up-front work, it reduced the amount of code needed and also reduced the development time for each subsequent chart.

In the next chapter, we will combine all of these charts into one document. We will also look at modifying one of the rendering plugins for jqPlot.

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