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Create Web Charts with jqPlot

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Charting Technology Overview

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 1-17
  3. jQuery Basics

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 19-41
  4. Introducing jqPlot

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 43-60
  5. Line Charts with jqPlot

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 61-122
  6. Bar Charts with jqPlot

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 123-157
  7. Pie Charts and Donut Charts with jqPlot

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 159-166
  8. Candlestick Charts with jqPlot

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 167-172
  9. Funnel Charts with jqPlot

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 183-186
  10. Adding Controls to Charts

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 187-201
  11. Embedding jqPlot Charts in jQuery Widgets

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 203-218
  12. Handling Input Data

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 219-228
  13. Guidelines for the Examples in the Book

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 229-235
  14. jqPlot Plug-ins

    • Fabio Nelli
    Pages 237-238
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 239-244

About this book

Create Web Charts with jqPlotshows 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.

By 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 simple HTML tables to structured JSON files, and from Matlab calculations to reports in Excel. You will be able to provide cutting-edge charts exploiting the growing power of modern browsers.

This book contains content previously published in Beginning JavaScript Charts.

  • Create all kinds of charts using the latest technologies available on browsers
  • Full of step-by-step examples, Create Web Charts with jqPlot 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

About the author

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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