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Highcharts Essentials

Highcharts Essentials

By : Shahid
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Highcharts Essentials

Highcharts Essentials

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Overview of this book

If you are a web developer with a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to quickly get started with this web charting technology, this is the book for you. This book will also serve as an essential guide to those who have probably used a similar library and are now looking at migrating to Highcharts.
Table of Contents (11 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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1. Getting Started with Highcharts
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1. Getting Started with Highcharts
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Why choose Highcharts?
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Installing Highcharts
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A simple Highcharts example
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Summary
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2. Column and Bar Charts
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2. Column and Bar Charts
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Introducing column charts
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Including multiple data series
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Stacking column charts
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Excluding a series from stacking
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Drilling down the chart
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Adjusting ticks and other chart elements
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Introducing bar charts
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Negatively stacked bar charts
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Creating 3D column charts
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3. Line and Spline Charts
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3. Line and Spline Charts
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Introducing line charts
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Creating line charts with regular time intervals
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Creating line charts with irregular time intervals
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Creating line charts with multiple series
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Loading data from an HTML table
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Creating spline charts
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Combining line and column charts
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4. Area, Scatter, and Bubble Charts
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4. Area, Scatter, and Bubble Charts
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Introducing area charts
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Stacking charts with multiple series
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Area charts with percentage values
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Area-spline charts
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Introducing scatter charts
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Scatter charts with multiple series
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Creating bubble charts
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5. Pie, Polar, and Spider Web Charts
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5. Pie, Polar, and Spider Web Charts
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Introducing pie charts
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Slicing off a pie chart
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Drilling down the pie chart
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Creating pie charts with multiple series
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Creating a donut chart
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Configuring a semicircle donut
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Combining pie charts with line and column charts
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Introducing a polar chart
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Polar charts with different series types
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Converting other chart types to the polar chart
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Introducing the spider web chart
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Creating a wind rose chart
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6. Other Chart Types
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6. Other Chart Types
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Creating an angular gauge chart
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Creating a VU meter
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Creating a solid gauge
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Plotting a waterfall chart
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Plotting a pyramid chart
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Drawing a funnel chart
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Creating a heat map
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7. Theming with Highcharts
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7. Theming with Highcharts
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Basic theming concepts
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Formatting the tooltip with HTML
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Altering borders, shadows, and backgrounds
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Gradient fill types
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Using Google Fonts with Highcharts
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Using jQuery UI easing for series animation
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Creating a global theme for our charts
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Configuring our charts for internationalization
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8. Exploring Highcharts APIs and Events
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8. Exploring Highcharts APIs and Events
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An overview of Highcharts APIs and class model
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Getting values with the Chart.get() method
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Adding series and points
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Accomplishing various tasks programmatically
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Highcharts events
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Extending Highcharts
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9. Going Further with Highcharts
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9. Going Further with Highcharts
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Preprocessing data from different file types
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Preprocessing data from a database using PHP's PDO class
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Updating charts using Ajax
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Exporting Highcharts into other formats
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Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Highcharts

Highcharts is a JavaScript library that adds interactive charts to websites or web applications. It supports more than 20 chart types that can further be combined into different combinations to make data more meaningful. Highcharts comes with a plethora of features, and yet its API is simple enough to get beginners up and running.

In this chapter, we will present an overview of Highcharts and its various features. We will take a look at the advantages that Highcharts offers over its alternatives and how it can help us with visualizing data by providing deep browser support and extensibility. We will also learn how to install Highcharts and familiarize ourselves with the file structure and different modules. At the end of this chapter, we will construct a simple column chart to kick-start our coding journey and get hands-on experience with Highcharts configurations.

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