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AnyChart JS Charts 2016 Year in Review: Look How Much Was Done!

December 26th, 2016 by AnyChart Team

This year has been so busy and fruitful for AnyChart JS Charts that now our team is extremely tired and feels incredibly happy at the same time. In fact, we went all out to make our JavaScript (HTML5) based charting libraries AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyGantt, and AnyMap even much more feature-rich, flexible, user-friendly, and faster with only one purpose – to bring you an unprecedented data visualization experience.

Looking back, we are proud of how MUCH was done in 2016! And now, we invite you to join us in quickly reviewing this year’s accomplishments that further strengthened AnyChart’s global leadership in interactive data visualization.

Without more ado, here is the list of new product and feature arrivals as well as major improvements to our JS charts solutions – a great chance to make sure you did not miss any important innovation.

1. More Types of JS Charts.

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JS graphs and diagrams

• Treemap charts
• Linear gauges – LED, tank, and thermometer
• 3D area charts
• 3D bar charts
• 3D column charts

(AnyChart gallery)

Stock and financial JS charts

• Candlestick charts
• Spline charts
• Step line charts
• Area charts
• Step area charts
• Spline area charts
• Marker charts
• Range column charts
• Range area charts
• Range spline area charts

(AnyStock gallery)

JS Gantt charts

• PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) charts
• Resource charts (redesigned; beta)

(AnyGantt gallery)

JS maps

• Dot (point) maps
• Flow (connector) maps
• Seat maps

(AnyMap gallery)

2. More Features in JS Charts.

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All JS charts

• Full accessibility (Section 508)
• Localization engine with 196 culture-specific locale settings files. Demos: AnyChart, AnyStock, AnyGantt, AnyMap

JS graphs and diagrams

• Chart themes/palettes (demo)
• Exclude/include data points
• Context menu
• Save data as XSLX and CSV
• Save chart configuration as XML and JSON
• String tokens
• Chart statistics
• Standalone chart elements
• Tooltip settings improvement

(AnyChart docs)

Stock and financial JS charts

• Drawing tools and annotations (demo)
• Technical indicators – MACD, RSI, SMA, EMA, ROC, Aroon, and custom
• Data grouping
• Markers on data points
• Range selection UI
• Legend interactivity
• Y-scale comparison mode (changes and percentage changes)

(AnyStock docs)

JS Gantt charts

• Calendar support
• Smart timeline
• Event markers for time intervals and important events
• Timeline markers for multiple milestones

(AnyGantt docs)

JS maps

• Drill down
• Longitude/latitude API
• Move/zoom API
• Rich integration of keyboard and mouse controls
• 13 map projections

(AnyMap docs)

3. Easier JS charting.

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• Chart editor (demo)
• Demos of business solutions including the following JavaScript (HTML5) dashboards:
  • Web Audience dashboard
  • Human Resources dashboard
  • Investment Portfolio dashboard
  • Sales dashboard
  • CIO dashboard
  • Site Speed Overview dashboard
  • States of the US dashboard
• Migration tool – a small library for easier transit from AnyChart 5/6 to 7
• 20+ technical integration templates and samples for easy JS/HTML5 data visualization with any popular technology stack:
  • ASP.NET – C# / C#, SignalR / VB.NET – MySQL integration template
  • Clojure – ClojureScript – PostgreSQL integration template
  • Go – (Revel) – MySQL integration template
  • iOS – Objective-C – SQLite integration template
  • Java Servlets – Maven, JDBC, JSP – MySQL integration template
  • Java Spring – Maven, Hibernate – MySQL integration template
  • Julia – MySQL integration template
  • NodeJS – (Express, Jade) / Socket.IO – MongoDB integration template
  • Perl – Catalyst – MySQL integration template
  • PHP – (Laravel / Slim / Symfony) – MySQL integration template
  • Python – Flask / Django – MySQL integration template
  • R – Shiny – MySQL integration template
  • Ruby on Rails – (Sinatra) – MySQL integration template
  • Scala – Akka / Play – MySQL integration template
  • Electron integration template

4. Faster JS Charts.

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• Performance improvement (speed test):
  • Less than 1s to render 250,000 data points
  • Less than 60ms to stream 500 points
• Async rendering (docs)

5. New Products.

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• AnyChart 7.x Plugins for Oracle APEX
• GraphicsJS, a powerful open-source JavaScript graphics library (SVG)

To sum up, 2016 was immensely intensive. But 2017 will be no less productive from the very beginning – we promise.

We wish you a peaceful, prosperous, and happy new year!

• Categories: AnyChart charting component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Financial charts, Gantt Chart, GraphicsJS, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Oracle Apex, Stock charts
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JS Charting Without Borders: 21 New Integration Templates for Popular Stacks

December 19th, 2016 by AnyChart Team

Making your data visualization life ever easier is what we at AnyChart are boundlessly passionate about. This time we focused on further simplifying the integration of our JS charting solutions into your web development environment.

So, prepare to replan your schedule! From now on, you will spend tangibly less time on charting. And please greet the 21 New Technical Integration Templates that we have just released! They will help you deploy HTML5 graphs, maps, stock charts, dashboards, and Gantt diagrams in your stack as easily (and rapidly!) as never before, no matter what programming languages, frameworks, and databases are used.

You can find the templates right here on our website, in the Technical Integrations section.

Basically, our powerful JavaScript/HTML5 based solutions for interactive data visualization – AnyChart, AnyMap, AnyStock, and AnyGantt – are inherently compatible with all major technologies and platforms. Configuring each JS charting library is easy, and we are sure all of you are more than capable of making even rather complicated integrations prefectly done by yourself. But we keep on doing our best to bring you the ultimate simplicity and clarity so you could get along without additional research and other time-consuming activities.

The integration templates we’ve added cover the most popular languages, frameworks and libraries, and database programs. Below is the list of the newly available combinations.

Templates for easily integrating AnyChart JS charting libraries into your stack:

ASP.NET integration ASP.NET, C# and MySQL ASP.NET, C#, SignalR and MySQL ASP.NET, VB.NET and MySQL

Go integration Go and MySQL Go, Revel and MySQL

Java integration Java Spring, Maven, Hibernate and MySQL Java Servlets, Maven, JDBC, JSP and MySQL

Julia integration Julia and MySQL

NodeJS integration NodeJS and MongoDB (using Socket.io) NodeJS, Express, Jade and MongoDB

Perl integration Perl, Catalyst Web Framework and MySQL

PHP integration PHP, Laravel and MySQL PHP, Slim and MySQL PHP, Symfony and MySQL

Python integration Python, Flask and MySQL Python, Django and MySQL

R integration R, Shiny and MySQL

Ruby on Rails integration Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and MySQL Ruby on Rails and MySQL

Scala integration Scala, Akka and MySQL Scala, Play and MySQL

We hope you agree that this is a tremendous addition to the JS charting integration samples published earlier:

• Clojure, ClojureScript and PostgreSQL,
• iOS, Objective-C and SQLite,
• NodeJS and MongoDB,
• PHP and MySQL,
• PHP, Slim and MySQL.

So, you are welcome to make use of our integration templates and samples for easier data visualization. All of them are released on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License, rest in the AnyChart Integrations repository, and can be forked and changed in any way.

We are going to keep the collection growing further. Meanwhile, please send us your suggestions on what other particular integration you are interested to learn about first, and – as always! – that one will be prioritized; just contact our Support Team for that and name your stack.

To make your JS charting life even easier, we will release special AnyChart plugins for Angular, Ember, jQuery, Meteor, and React JavaScript frameworks in February 2017, with the 7.13.0 update. But this is a completely other remarkable story. Stay tuned. And thanks for being with us!

• Categories: AnyChart charting component, AnyGantt, AnyMap, AnyStock, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Financial charts, Gantt Chart, HTML5, JavaScript, News, Stock charts, Third-party developers, Tips and tricks
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