July 6th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
The ability to set left and right timescale paddings in pixels was in extreme demand, and we always do our best to provide our customers with as wide range of built-in technical indicators as possible – so we have decided not to put off the AnyStock 1.4.0 update that gives you the full control of timescale margins and three new technical indicators:
Thus, AnyStock has become even better than before and now supports already 30 built-in and ready-to-use technical indicators.
Download AnyStock 1.4.0: https://www.anychart.com/download/
Version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/history/
July 6th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
We are proud to announce the availability of the long-awaited AnyChart 5.1.3 with new chart types and numerous fixes and improvements!
New chart types
- Radar Chart
A radar chart is a graphical method of displaying multivariate data. Variables are represented on axes starting from the same point, where the relative position and angle of the axes is uninformative. It is also known as spider chart, star chart, kiviat diagram, etc. AnyChart allows displaying three types of series on radar charts: Line, Area and Marker.
- Polar Chart
A polar chart is a plot drawn on a circular grid, showing trends in values on the basis of angles: each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a fixed point and an angle from a fixed direction. AnyChart allows drawing Line, Area and Marker series on polar plots.
New features
- A new external method that allows animating updated values.
- New formatting keywords that allow controlling the number of characters in token: maxChar and maxCharFinalChars.
- New parameters in chartMouseMove, pointMouseOut, pointMouseOver events: mouseX and mouseY.
- Multiseries pie and donut charts can now use outside labels with connectors.
Bug fixes
- Minor missing values interpolation algorithm issue is fixed.
- Flex component “tooltip stick” problem is solved.
- Wrong positioning of labels for points with zero value is fixed.
Download AnyChart 5.1.3: https://www.anychart.com/download/
Version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart7/history/
July 1st, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Today, AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts 1.3.0 is available. In the new version, several important improvements have been made:
New technical indicators
New features
Bug fixes
- Grouping of data provider fields with “High” and “Low” approximation types was incorrect.
- Volume+MA indicator worked improperly with ma_period attribute. This error has been fixed.
Download AnyStock 1.3.0: https://www.anychart.com/download/
Version history: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/history/
Roadmap: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/roadmap/
June 21st, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization. Here is his website: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/.
We appreciate his works very much, especially The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information, which we recommend to any developers or designers.
As it says,
Graphical displays should
- show the data
- induce the viewer to think about the substance rather than about methodology, graphic design, the technology of graphic production, or something else
- avoid distorting what the data have to say
- present many numbers in a small space
- make large data sets coherent
- encourage the eye to compare different pieces of data
- reveal the data at several levels of detail, from a broad overview to the fine structure
- serve a reasonably clear purpose: description, exploration, tabulation, or decoration
- be closely integrated with the statistical and verbal descriptions of a data set.
AnyChart is an instrument. We give the opportunity to create many different charts in many different ways, and this powerful instrument should be used correctly.
Speaking of “encouraging the eye to compare different pieces of data”: compare a table and a graphical representation of the famous Anscombe’s Quartet:
Anscombe’s Quartet Table
| I |
II |
III |
IV |
| x |
y |
x |
y |
x |
y |
x |
y |
| 10.0 |
8.04 |
10.0 |
9.14 |
10.0 |
7.46 |
8.0 |
6.58 |
| 8.0 |
6.95 |
8.0 |
8.14 |
8.0 |
6.77 |
8.0 |
5.76 |
| 13.0 |
7.58 |
13.0 |
8.74 |
13.0 |
12.74 |
8.0 |
7.71 |
| 9.0 |
8.81 |
9.0 |
8.77 |
9.0 |
7.11 |
8.0 |
8.84 |
| 11.0 |
8.33 |
11.0 |
9.26 |
11.0 |
7.81 |
8.0 |
8.47 |
| 14.0 |
9.96 |
14.0 |
8.10 |
14.0 |
8.84 |
8.0 |
7.04 |
| 6.0 |
7.24 |
6.0 |
6.13 |
6.0 |
6.08 |
8.0 |
5.25 |
| 4.0 |
4.26 |
4.0 |
3.10 |
4.0 |
5.39 |
19.0 |
12.50 |
| 12.0 |
10.84 |
12.0 |
9.13 |
12.0 |
8.15 |
8.0 |
5.56 |
| 7.0 |
4.82 |
7.0 |
7.26 |
7.0 |
6.42 |
8.0 |
7.91 |
| 5.0 |
5.68 |
5.0 |
4.74 |
5.0 |
5.73 |
8.0 |
6.89 |
As you can see, in this case the graphical representation speaks loudly, whilst the table remains silent.
We will go on posting here some important tips from Edward Tufte’s books, but after all, the most helpful thing is just considering carefully the way to visualize your data.
June 15th, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
Today, we are glad to publish a new success story: Auditr have chosen AnyChart to visualize healthcare data.
Auditr (http://www.auditr.com/) is an online, totally web-based service designed specially for hospitals and healthcare organizations. It helps to provide assurance, get early warning of potential problems, and improve performance. With Auditr, users can collect data, report and discuss the results, develop and monitor action plans. Auditr is developed by Internet Learning Ltd, a company that previously built learning management systems used in the field of healthcare.
The challenge was to visualize time-based and statistical data for reports in the form of line, bar, meters and heatmap charts and to make the charts interactive so that an end-user could proceed to more detailed information by clicking a particular point of a chart.
AnyChart was chosen as a solution – the component allows creating a wide variety of fully configurable charts, and all data is easily set in XML format. Using AnyChart’s interactivity options, actions that should be performed when a user clicks a point on a chart were defined.
Enjoy the full story:
Other stories can be found at: https://www.anychart.com/company/success_stories.php
June 9th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Charts make people not only understand numbers, but also laugh.
GraphJam is a website showing music and popular culture in funny charts and graphs created by users. These charts can be viewed as a form of modern Internet folklore – signed by nicknames, they are half anonymous, and most witty ones are often reposted by other users in blogs and social networks, which resembles the way folklore spreads.
The fact that charts can be used in such an unexpected and curious way truly inspires us. And it was difficult to stay aside, not trying to apply here AnyChart’s vast capabilities and make some especially interesting items posted at GraphJam even more expressive.
All our charts are fully configurable and nice-looking, so they show the best advantage of any information, including even jokes. One of the many types supported by AnyChart is a 3D Pie Chart, and this is our version of a GraphJam 3D Pie Chart:
To check out other examples of Pie and Donut Charts, visit our gallery.
We will be posting more charts from GraphJam created by AnyChart.
June 2nd, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
Today we have released a new version of AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts – 1.2.0.
The following new features are available:
- It is now possible to set a time offset in hours for annotation anchor points in the same way it is done for data points or event marker anchors.
- Two new events have been added that allow tracking the beginning and the end of editing annotations.
- Eleven new technical indicators have been added: Aroon, Average True Range (ATR), Accumulation Distribution Line (ADL), Keltner Channels, Moving Average Envelopes (MA Envelopes), On Balance Volume (OBV), Price Channels, TRIX, Bollinger Bands %B, Bollinger Bands Width, Momentum.
Bug fixes:
- The SWC library showed a wrong info in the VERSION constant. This bug has been fixed.
- The error reporting system now works correctly when errors in defining timestamps formats for data sets or data providers are encountered.
Demos and Help Materials updates:
- onAnnotationEditingStart() and onAnnotationEditingFinish() sample handlers have been added.
- The description of new technical indicators has been added.
Full version changes information: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/history/
The roadmap for the next version: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/roadmap/
Download the latest version: https://www.anychart.com/download/
May 17th, 2011 by Timothy Loginov
A new version of AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts is available – AnyStock 1.1.1.
In this version, a new navigation feature has been added: users can now quickly select a particular area of a plot by holding the SHIFT key and moving a mouse, the video below illustrates this feature (and you can do it yourself on any AnyStock chart):
There is also an update of our help materials: a new sample has been added to Online HTML/JS Samples Center: Synchronizing Selected ranges in Two Different Chart Objects.
Two bugs have been fixed. Firstly, when allow_edit attribute forbids editing annotations, the points beneath them are now highlighted correctly. Secondly, using the applySettingsChanges() method no longer makes annotations invisible, and doesn’t prevent from adding new annotations.
Here is the roadmap for future versions of AnyStock: http://6.anychart.com/products/anystock7/roadmap/
May 12th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts is a powerful tool for visualizing any time-based data, not only financial one. For example, AnyStock can perfectly deal with the results of geoscience surveys, which include gathering and analyzing large amounts of data, both real-time and historical.
The success story we are publishing today is about UNAVCO – a non-profit consortium that is dedicated to geoscience research and education using geodesy. UNAVCO collects, stores and makes available to the research community terabytes of geodetic and related time-series data. Much of this data originates from the Plate Boundary Observatory which is a network of over 1,100 permanent GPS stations located in the western U.S., Alaska, Canada and Baja California. These stations measure the slow deformation of the earth’s crust to sub-centimeter accuracy.
The challenge was:
- To plot real-time GPS positions generated by over 300 stations in the PBO network for display on our website.
- To provide researchers time-series plots of hourly meteorological data, collected by station instruments, for the purpose of evaluating environmental factors influencing GPS signals.
- To provide end users the ability of scaling and scrolling time-series plots on-the-fly.
AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts was chosen, being an instrument with full feature set for creating real-time streaming (new data is added without reloading plots). AnyStock also provides rich format, pan and zoom options for easy navigation, which allows working with long term and large data sets.
You can enjoy the success story here:
Other stories can be found here: https://www.anychart.com/company/success_stories.php
April 29th, 2011 by Margaret Skomorokh
Today we publish a new success story: HeadHunter have chosen AnyStock to visualise hh.index.
HeadHunter, founded in 2000, is a leading Russian Internet recruitment company. Its main asset is the hh.ru site, with a base of 120 thousand job offers and 5.5 million CVs. Companies invite through this site 140 thousand candidates weekly. HeadHunter is a part of Mail.Ru Group – a major Russian Internet company, leading in the number of monthly unique visitors in Russian Internet segment, the owner of ICQ instant messaging service and many other IT companies.
The challenge was to visualize hh.index — the balance between the number of resumes and the number of vacancies submitted at the site for a particular period of time, which is an important index of business and economical activity and requires quality tools. It was needed that chart could be customized on-the-fly.
AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts were chosen, being an excellent tool for visualizing time-based data. It allows creating fully customizable interactive charts, displaying long term data sets in a comprehensible form.
You can enjoy the success story here:
Other stories can be found here: https://www.anychart.com/company/success_stories.php
