We return from lunch and decide to start on our line chart showing social media conversions. With this chart, we want to pull the data in from other sources. You start to look for some internal data sources, coming across one that returns the data as an object. We can see an excerpt of data returned by the data source. We will need to parse the object and create data arrays for jqPlot:
{ "twitter":[ ["2012-11-01",289],...["2012-11-30",225] ],
"facebook":[ ["2012-11-01",27],...["2012-11-30",48] ] }We solve this issue using a data renderer to pull our data and then format it properly for jqPlot. We can pass a function as a variable to jqPlot and when it is time to render the data, it will call this new function. We start by creating the function to receive our data and then format it. We name it
remoteDataSource. jqPlot will pass the following three parameters to our function: