Plotting Charts With jQuery

Since the release of jQuery in 2006, multitudes of plugins have been developed to provide solutions to a huge number of previously tricky problems. One of those tricky problems was the display of graphical data on a web page.

Flash was the only real solution, however as with anything written in Flash, it required a plug-in, there was no access to the source code, and the solution was usually heavyweight.

Now jQuery can take over the strain, and provide a lightweight solution to any website.

Highcharts

One particularly nice charting solution built with the jQuery library is called Highcharts. It is freely available for non-commercial use, and can be configured to produce bar, line, area, column and pie charts.

Website: http://www.highcharts.com

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