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Beginning JavaScript Charts shows how to convert your data into eye-catching, innovative, animated, and highly interactive browser-based charts. This book is suitable for developers of all experience levels and needs: for those who love fast and effective solutions, you can use the jqPlot library to generate charts with amazing effects and animations using only a few lines of code; if you want more power and need to create data visualization beyond traditional charts, then D3 is the JavaScript library for you; finally, if you need a high-performance, professional solution for interactive charts, then the Highcharts library is also covered.
If you are an experienced developer and want to take things further, then Beginning JavaScript Charts also shows you how to develop your own graphics library starting from scratch using jQuery. At the end of the book, you will have a good knowledge of all the elements needed to manage data from every possible source, from high-end scientific instruments to Arduino boards, from PHP SQL databases queries to simple HTML tables, and from Matlab calculations to reports in Excel. You will be able to provide cutting-edge charts exploiting the growing power of modern browsers.

Create all kinds of charts using the latest technologies available on browsers (HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, jqPlot, D3, Highcharts, and SVG)
Full of step-by-step examples, Beginning JavaScript Charts introduces you gradually to all aspects of chart development, from the data source to the choice of which solution to apply.
This book provides a number of tools that can be the starting point for any project requiring graphical representations of data, whether using commercial libraries or your own

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Charting Technology Overview
jQuery Basics
Simple HTML Tables
Drawing a Line Chart
Drawing a Bar Chart
Drawing a Pie Chart
Creating a Library for Simple Charts
Introducing jqPlot
Line Charts with jqPlot
Bar Charts with jqPlot
Pie Charts with jqPlot
Candlestick Charts with jqPlot
Bubble Charts with jqPlot
Other Charts with jqPlot
Adding Controls to Charts
Embedding jqPlot Charts in jQuery Widgets
Handling Input Data
Moving from jqPlot to Highcharts
Introducing D3
Line Charts with D3
Bar Charts with D3
Pie Charts with D3
Candlestick Charts with D3
Scatterplot and Bubble Charts with D3
Radar Charts with D3
Handling Live Data with D3
App A: Guidelines for the Examples in the Book
App B: jqPlot Plugins

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Fabio Nelli, is an IT Scientific Application Specialist at IRBM Science Park, a private research center in Pomezia, Roma (Italy). He has beena computer consultant for many years at IBM, EDS, Merck Sharp, and Dohme, along with several banks and insurance companies.He has an Organic Chemistry degree and many years of experience in Information technologies and Automation systems applied to Life Sciences (Tech Specialist at Beckman Coulter Italy and Spain).He is currently developing Java applications that interface Oracle databases with scientific instrumentations generating data and web server applications providing analysis of the results to researchers in real time.

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