Freiheit Gruppe Uses AnyChart JS to Visually Organize Berliners’ Ideas for Berlin University Alliance

July 5th, 2023 by AnyChart Team

#Berlinforschtmit by Berlin University Alliance and Freiheit GruppeData visualization is a game-changer when it comes to exploring and making sense of data. And here at AnyChart, we’re passionate about making the development of interactive charts a breeze. Our award-winning JavaScript charting library is not only trusted by the big players in enterprise data intelligence systems, with over 75% of Fortune 500 companies relying on it. It is a go-to choice for thousands of developers worldwide who want to easily create awesome visualizations for their – and their clients’ – websites and apps.

Recently, we discovered a stunning sunburst chart powered by AnyChart on the website of the Berlin University Alliance. This diagram effectively organizes the ideas submitted by Berliners within the framework of the #Berlinforschtmit project, which calls upon the local community to tip scientists regarding new research topics. These collective efforts aim to make significant contributions toward enhancing the quality of life in the city.

We’ve had the pleasure of having a quick conversation with Björn Knetter from Freiheit Gruppe, the team responsible for the design and technical implementation of #Berlinforschtmit. He told us more about this innovative initiative and how they leverage AnyChart for impactful data visualization. All aboard for our quick interview!

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Maigret.de Picks AnyChart JS Charts to Visualize Data on Georges Simenon’s Work

December 29th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Maigret.de Picks AnyChart JS Charts to Visualize Data on Georges Simenon’s WorkWhen data is all around, it’s no wonder to see charts here or there as they greatly help make sense of it. With thousands of happy customers worldwide, both for our JS charting library and Qlik charting extensions, we have seen countless applications for data visualization across all fields and industries. Some use cases, however, might be less expected than others. What about a website dedicated to literature?

Maigret.de — a remarkable resource about Georges Simenon, a famous Belgian writer best known for creating police detective Jules Maigret — has recently started to publish interactive data graphics revealing interesting patterns and facts in his immense work. All the charts on the website are built with AnyChart.

We have chatted with Maigret.de’s creator Oliver Hahn about his project, data visualizations, and experience using our solutions. Read the quick interview and go check out the website. (Stack: HTML/MySQL.)

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Yarra Hills Secondary College Uses AnyChart to Visualize Student Progress on Digital Data Wall

August 10th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Official logo of Yarra Hills Secondary College using AnyChart to visualize student progress on Digital Data WallLeading the enterprise data visualization market, AnyChart is also widely used by not-for-profit organizations in sectors such as education. Stephen Blackwell from Yarra Hills Secondary College (Australia) has recently shown us another great example of such an application.

Data walls have become a widespread practice in schools across the globe, letting teachers track and benchmark student progress to create effective learning environment. In many cases, they are just physical. For Yarra Hills, Stephen created a digital one that supercharges the overview with the help of well-thought-out visualizations powered by our JavaScript charting library.

Stephen kindly agreed to tell us about his Digital Data Wall project and how AnyChart is implemented. Read our fresh interview below. As you can imagine the original web app is for internal use only, but if you want to take a glance here is a copy with de-identified student data (password anychArt) and this is an example of an individual student profile. (Stack: PHP/MySQL.)

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AnyChart JS Charts Used to Visualize Data on Ancient French Riddles

June 30th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Les Enigmes de Mercure, or The Riddles of Mercury, with data on ancient French riddles and visualizations powered by AnyChart JS ChartsAs global leaders in data visualization solutions, we feel it is part of our mission to support educational and research projects by granting their authors a free license to use our products. Les Énigmes de Mercure (The Riddles of Mercury) by Timothée Léchot from the University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is one such initiative we are proud to back on non-commercial terms.

Recently, we had a quick talk with Timothée and asked him a few questions to learn more about his project and experience visualizing data with the AnyChart JS charting library. Read our quick interview below. (Stack: PHP/MySQL.)

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Connecting MySQL Database to JS Chart Using PHP

August 4th, 2020 by Wayde Herman

Connecting MySQL Database to JS Chart Using PHPWhen using a charting library like AnyChart, which makes visualizing data so quick and easy, often the most challenging step for beginners is loading data. I think this is largely a result of the fact that while the ways we output the data are quite similar, the input data is commonly very different. The data may differ in many ways including the number of features in the dataset, what type these features may be, the format of the data, and how the data is stored. It is this final issue which we will be addressing today.

There is a lot of coverage in the documentation of using a data object declared within the code as well as importing your data from a file using AnyChart’s data loader. But what about importing the data from an SQL database? This is an easily done but often misunderstood approach to handling and loading data for data visualizations.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to use JavaScript to query a database because JavaScript is a client side solution and querying a database requires a server side approach due to security concerns — you just can’t store database login and password in your JavaScript code. There are many workarounds for this problem including approaches involving PHP, Ajax, Node.js, and many more. Today we will focus on using PHP to handle this task for us when our data is stored in MySQL.

In this tutorial, we will be covering how to query a MySQL database using PHP. We will describe the steps involved and reveal that it is in fact not challenging at all, just different!

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StopCorona Creator Shares How They Visualize COVID-19 Data Using AnyChart

May 21st, 2020 by AnyChart Team

StopCorona Creator Shares How They Visualize COVID-19 Data Using AnyChartEarlier, we introduced you to a new, ever-updating COVID tracker that uses AnyChart to visualize the latest pandemic data in insightful charts, StopCorona.info. To let you know more, we also talked to Vadim Peskov, CEO at Diffco, the app development company behind StopCorona, and asked him a few questions.

Read our quick interview to learn more about StopCorona and their experience using our JavaScript charting library for interactive data visualization. (Stack: MySQL/Symfony/Angular.)

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