Ask HN: Charting tools

3 points by mdomans 10y ago ↗ HN

Hi guys, really simple problem: I need to draw some diagrams for me business guys. Basically I want a REST endpoint I can pump full of data and something that will generate a chart for me.

tl;dr in steps: 1) configure what charts you want to show 2) send data to charts 3) tada - it works

anybody knows of smth like this?

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Jocund 10y ago ↗

Google has an API for charts. [1] https://developers.google.com/chart/

I preferred their older image charts which are now deprecated. [2] https://developers.google.com/chart/image/?hl=en

mtmail 10y ago ↗

You can fill keen.io (I think it's cassandra database) and then run queries with chart output against that. https://keen.io/docs/data-visualization/

RollAHardSix 10y ago ↗

D3.js

thorin 10y ago ↗

I've used AnyChart and HighCharts JS and they both seem to be viable options. They look good and are very customizable.

http://www.highcharts.com/products/highcharts http://anychart.com/

RollAHardSix 10y ago ↗

I used HighCharts in my last position, I second that they are a very attractive and easy to work with charting library.

macoughl 10y ago ↗

http://www.chartjs.org/