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Top 5 Books about Data Visualization and Charting

June 30th, 2015 by Anton Baranchuk

Every day at AnyChart we deal with a lot of different data visualizations, charts, diagrams, dashboards when we help our clients to build their beautiful products. So, we have a lot of experience with both Flash and HTML5 charts, but also we recognize power of  reading to get theoretical understanding of basic concept from guru-thinkers. Here are our top 5 picks: Read more »

AnyChart 7.5.0 and AnyGantt 7.5.0 Released – new version of our HTML5 charts

June 18th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

Good news! Today we have two major releases of our HTML5 charts for our customers: AnyChart 7.5.0 and AnyGantt 7.5.0. In the new versions of our components, you will find the Funnel and Pyramid chart types, Dashbording Tools, the Printing and Animation options, and other significant improvements. Check them out:

AnyChart 7.5.0 New Features

Dashboarding Tools
The purpose of Dashboarding Tools is to provide simple and convenient instruments for building complex Dashboards. In the current release we present the first part of this set: the ability to highlight/hide series and points, using special methods.
See API Reference for more details >>
Printing
The new printing method allows you to make a full-page print of a chart or a dashboard. It supports eight paper size formats: US Letter, A0 – A6, and the portrait/landscape switch.
Read more about Printing >>
Animation
Most popular charts types – Line, Column, Bar, Area, and so on – are now animated. Animation supports duration settings and start&finish events.
Take a look at the Gallery samples >>
Funnel Charts
Funnel charts (also called accumulation charts) show percentage ratio. They are often used to represent different stages in sales process and show the amount of potential revenue for each stage.
Read more about Funnel Charts >>
Take a look at the Gallery samples >>
Pyramid Charts
Pyramid charts are used to visualize the hierarchical structure of topics, and progressively ordered quantitative data.
Read more about Pyramid Charts >>
Take a look at the Gallery samples >>

AnyGantt 7.5.0 New Features

Printing
The new printing method allows you to make a full-page print of your chart. It supports eight paper size formats: US Letter, A0 – A6, and the portrait/landscape switch.
Read more about Printing >>
Events
Events allow to handle such user actions as rowClick, rowMouseOver, rowMouseMove, etc. with the .listen() and .listenOnce() methods. Using this methods, you can override default chart interactivity.
XML/JSON/CSV Data Support
The XML and JSON formats can be used for data and settings input; CSV can be used for data input. XML and JSON schemas are available.
Learn how you can work with data >>
Summary Tasks Auto-Calculation
The actualStart, actualEnd, and progressValue data fields of grouping tasks became optional. If they are missing, auto-calculation is done, based on tasks in the group.
Take a look at the Gallery sample >>

AnyChart version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/
AnyGantt version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anygantt/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/

DeviceLock Chooses AnyChart HTML5 charts for Its DLP Security Solution

June 11th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

We are happy to announce that a new customer success story has been added to our site.

logo_devicelockDeviceLock, Inc, established in 1996, is a leading provider of endpoint device/port control and data leak prevention software for business, education and government institutions around the world. The company offers DeviceLock, a policy-based endpoint data leak prevention (DLP) security solution that enables network administrators to centrally control uploading and downloading activity through local computer devices and network protocols and applications.

The challenge was:

  • To present the activity of DeviceLock in a clear and visually appealing way.
  • To make complex data easy to read and understand so that the situation could be quickly evaluated by the end user.

Solution:

  • AnyChart JavaScript charts were chosen as a solution. The component allows to create stylish interactive HTML5 charts and provides excellent rendering performance.
  • Due to wide variety of chart types and the flexibility of AnyChart, it was possible to implement user-friendly data visualizations.

You can enjoy the full success story here:

logo_devicelock DeviceLock
DeviceLock Chooses AnyChart for Its DLP Security Solution >>

Or see other AnyChart Customer Success Stories.

New Partnership Announcement: Datonix and AnyChart

May 22nd, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

We are very pleased to announce that AnyChart have partnered with Datonix.

Datonix primary product is datonixOne, a computer appliance designed for BIGDATA Solutions and eXpress development. Using datonixOne, Federated BIGDATA applications can be quickly developed, providing ready information for end users.


AnyChart partners: https://www.anychart.com/partners/.

AnyChart 7.4.1 Update Available

May 15th, 2015 by Timothy Loginov

In the AnyChart 7.4.1 update, we have added a lot of great features and improvements including a major upgrade of Legend API. Here is the full list of improvements and bug fixes:

New Features

Legend API Improvements
(For more information, see the Legend API Reference.)

  • Removed the itemsProvider method.
  • Added the itemsSourceMode method, allowing a set of legend items to switch between series and categories.
  • Added the items method, allowing to create a custom set of legend items.
  • Added the itemsFormatter method, allowing to customize the default set of legend items.
  • Added the itemsTextFormatter method, allowing to customize the text of legend items.
  • Added the hoverCursor method, allowing to customize the behavior of the cursor.
  • Added the inverted method, allowing to invert the sequence of legend items.
  • Added the legendItem method for all series, allowing to customize legend items.

Legend Interactivity Improvements
(For more information, see the Legend section in our User’s Guide.)

  • A series is highlited when a legend item is hovered.
  • A series is disabled when a legend item is clicked.
  • Added an easy way to customize the default behavior via the preventDefault and stopPropagation methods.

Other Improvements

  • The default interactivity now works the same in all chart types (Radar/Polar, Cartesian, Scatter, etc.).
  • Circular Gauges: drawing improved.

Bug fixes:

  • Solved problems with multiple lines in texts (\n\n).
  • Tables are now redrawn when internal settings of charts are changed.
  • Y-scale is no longer inverted in Win/Loss series.
  • Changing the orientation of a Bullet Chart no longer causes the drawing bug.
  • Solved problems with drawing multiple axes in Cartesian and Scatter Charts.
  • Fixed the bug with Tooltips padding.
  • Hover settings for Data Labels now can be set from Data.
  • Fixed the bug with drawing Grids in IE6-8 (VML).
  • Fixed the bug with the position of Tooltips in IE6-8 (VML).

AnyChart version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/

AnyChart 7.4.0 Available

March 30th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

A new version of our component – AnyChart 7.4.0 – is available for download. We have implemented a number of important features including 4 new chart types: Sparkline, Error, Box&Whisker, and Circular Gauges. Check out the main improvements:

Sparkline Charts
Sparkline charts are designed to fit a lot of them in a tiny space. Sparklines are good at presenting changes in time for an array of similar data, e.g. currency or medical trends.
Read more about Sparkline Charts >>
Take a look at Gallery sample >>
Error Charts
Error Charts are to be used as error or deviation indicators. Error bars often represent one standard deviation of uncertainty, one standard error, or a certain confidence interval.
Read more about Error Charts >>
Take a look at Gallery sample >>
Box and Whisker Charts
Box Charts are predominantly used in descriptive statistics. Using a box chart is a way of representing groups of numerical data. Boxes operate with specific terms, such as whiskers, quartiles, and median.
Read more about Box and Whisker Charts >>
Take a look at Gallery sample >>
Circular Gauges
Circular Gauge is a radial chart that can be used as a clock, speedometer, compass, audio feature tuner or any other gauge that represents the value as an angle on a circle plot.
Read more about Circular Gauges >>
Take a look at Gallery sample >>
Pie/Donut Aqua Style
Aqua Style for Pie/Donut charts is a renewed gradient fill style which has become very popular among our users since AnyChart 5.0.
Take a look at Gallery sample >>

Read more »

AnyChart and AnyGantt 7.3.1 Update

January 22nd, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh

Today we are releasing a small bug fix update to AnyChart and an improvement update to AnyGantt.

AnyChart 7.3.1: bug fixes

  • Problems with updating data points on Pie Charts.
  • Problems with updating legend items and appending series in Scatter/Cartesian/Radar/Polar Charts.

AnyGantt 7.3.1: new features

  • The Tooltips feature for Resource and Project Charts.
  • Data grid and timeline rows highlighting.
  • Improvements of scrollbar style.

AnyChart version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/
AnyGantt version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anygantt/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/

AnyChart 7.3.0 with Scatter, Radar, and Polar Charts Released

December 17th, 2014 by Margaret Skomorokh

Great news! We are happy to announce the release of a new version of our product – AnyChart 7.3.0. The basic package of AnyChart now includes three long-awaited chart types: Scatter, Radar, and Polar.

A Scatter Chart shows the relationships among the numeric values in several data series, or plots two groups of numbers as one series of XY coordinates.

A Radar Chart is a graphical method of displaying multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart of three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point. It is also known as web chart, spider chart, star chart, cobweb chart, star plot, irregular polygon, or kiviat diagram.

A Polar Chart allows to draw a scatter chart using the polar coordinate system, which is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a fixed point and an angle from a fixed direction.

AnyChart version history: https://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/

AnyChart 7.2.0 Available

October 28th, 2014 by Margaret Skomorokh

We are glad to announce that AnyChart 7.2.0, a new version of our charting component, is available. It includes new features and important improvements, which we hope will make your charting experience even better.

A new chart type, Bullet Chart, was added.

Another new feature is Table Layout. It allows to create complex dashboards like this one:

Now it is also possible to add, remove, and alter data, which allows to create live streaming charts and do many other useful things. For details, see this article: Working with data.

Here is the full list of changes:

New features

  • Bullet Charts
  • Table Layout
  • Add/Remove/Update Operations

Improvements

  • Warning and error messages improved
  • Performance improvemed

Bug fixes

  • Z-index bug fixed
  • Marker issues in DateTime scales fixed
  • FireFox 32 and IE11 bug fixed

AnyChart version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart7/history/
Trial download: https://www.anychart.com/download/

AnyChart 7.1.1 Released

September 18th, 2014 by Timothy Loginov

Today we are making a minor release with some bug fixes. We would like to mention that these bugs were found with a help of our extensive QA and testing systems. To create a good component, it is not enough to implement all features needed — one should also make them work well. That is why AnyChart products go through numerous tests and the strict verification by our QA Team.

To make tests and control quality, we use our own testing system with a cute name CAT — which, in fact, stands for The Complex for Automated Testing. The systems uses Selenium and makes all tests both in the headless WebKit PhantomJS and real browsers. The CAT supports testing sessions and never stands idle. There are thousands of tests which cover all methods of all classes from the API. All bugs we have ever found are also covered with tests, so we are sure that a bug which was killed once will never appear again.

Cat 1

Though we are doing our best to find all issues ourselves, we appreciate help from our customers, and for in 7.1.1 release we thank our good friend Kevin Brown from Xportability for two bug reports:

  • DVF-752 Duplicate namespace declaration in IE.
  • DVF-808 A conflict with the prototype.

And we thank our QA Team for the other bug fixes. You can take a look at the list in our version history.

Trial download is available at https://www.anychart.com/download/, try AnyChart – the tested solution you can trust!

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