Chapter 1, Getting Started with Highcharts, covers the basics of setting up a simple page with Highcharts and quickly explores common scenarios a developer may encounter.

Chapter 2, Processing Data, dives into the different input sources for a chart and how those sources connect to our chart.

Chapter 3, Handling User Interaction, shows how we can customize charts to provide richer interactions and visualizations.

Chapter 4, Sharing Charts on the Web, demonstrates how we can send charts to others, online or offline.

Chapter 5, Integrating with ExtJS, shows how we can start building rich desktop-like applications using Highcharts.

Chapter 6, Integrating with jQuery, covers how we can leverage jQuery and its various plugins to create and display charts.

Chapter 7, Integrating with the Yii Framework, demonstrates how we can use Highcharts in a PHP application.

Chapter 8, Integrating with Other Frameworks, looks at some of the more popular Web frameworks and tools and how we can get them up and running with Highcharts.

Chapter 9, Extending Highcharts, takes us one step further into working with the internals of Highcharts and how we can create our own chart extensions.

Chapter 10, Math and Statistics, dives into how we can use Highcharts to graph and display data of a more mathematical and scientific nature.

Chapter 11, System Integration, covers a few interesting connections with system resources and how we can use Highcharts to visualize that data.

Chapter 12, Other Inspirational Uses, takes a look at how we can use what we've learned in the previous chapters as well as leveraging HTML5 APIs and other odds and ends to create really interesting applications without a lot of code.

While this book focuses primarily on Highcharts, there are a number of tools that we will leverage to make the recipes possible. Usually, all the required tools are mentioned in the Getting ready section of a recipe. The following are a few of the required tools:

I've done my best to make this book as easy to read as possible for anyone with a technical background. However, this book will be easier to understand and more useful for JavaScript developers or other developers working on web applications.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Charts are created by making instances of a Highcharts.Chart object, either directly via its constructor or indirectly using plugins developed for different JavaScript frameworks."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "dependencies": {
    "highcharts": "~3.0",
    "jquery": "^1.9"
  }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

var options = {
    // ...
    tooltip: {
        formatter: function() {
            return 'We have ' + this.y + ' ' + this.point.options.category + 's'
        }
    }
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

pip install bottle==0.11.6

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on the By hour button, as shown in the following screenshot."

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