Definitely Highcharts. I have used it on a few projects, and it is
fantastic. It's free for non-commercial use. Great documentation and
support. It also has plugins for several web app frameworks like Rails,
Django, Yii, etc. Very helpful if you are going to use one of those to build
your dashboard.

Josh Welker


-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Kaile Zhu
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data

I used google charts.  Not as fancy as D3, but easier.  You pass data to the
chart API and it does the heavy lifting for you.

https://developers.google.com/chart/

-Kelly Zhu
Web Services Librarian
University of Central Oklahoma

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric
Phetteplace
Sent: 2014年9月19日 9:44
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization libraries for lib data

I've used D3 to build charts for a similar data dashboard. It's maybe a
little less plug-and-play than other charting libraries but has tremendous
adoption, is really flexible.

http://d3js.org/

Best,
Eric

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michel, Jason <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> We're in the process of centralizing all of our disparate data points
> (circ, door counts, chat ref, in-person interactions, db stats,
> instruction, web analytics, social analytics) into a single DB.  We
> then plan on building interactive visualizations on top of this data.
>
> What are some visualization/charting/graphing libraries that would
> work for this?  We have some ideas but wanted to hear what the c4l had
> to say about it.  Thanks in advance!
>
> This is what we have so far (social stats only).  We're using chart.js
> for
> this:
>
> http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/apis/stats/
>
>
> Jason Paul Michel
> User Experience Librarian
> Miami University Libraries
> 513.529.3935
> *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* @jpmichel
> <https://twitter.com/jpmichel>
>
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