Wow. Highcharts looks to be an excellent tool.  Thanks for the tip!



Jason Paul Michel
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Miami University Libraries
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
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> 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-----
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> Eric
> Phetteplace
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> 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
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