Easy, Beautiful Charts with Flot
I’ve been looking for a free, open source chart library for a while and was struggling to find something that was good enough (and handled time series and missing data points well). For a long time I’ve been using Fusion Charts (FC) and Open Flash Chart (OFC) in any in-house work and those products are very good. But they’re Flash, a little slow and not supported by some popular mobile devices. I’ve also used pChart for some testing but it was fairly stale in development and being images, had no interaction.
The Flot JS library was something I’d seen a while back, but before I became comfortable with JS and jQuery. It does almost exactly what I want, is farily light-weight, extensible and easy to use. In a few hours last week I swapped out the FC code I had written for Overview and put in something almost half the size with Flot that created (in my view) a better product.
So I thought I might let others know what a nice, easy option Flot is with a little example. Beware this is not a fully working, copy and paste sort of example, it’s really just a chunk of generic code I pulled out. Read more >>
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