Highcharts Essentials

Create interactive data visualization charts with the Highcharts JavaScript library

About This Book

• Add graphical charts to your websites and web applications
• Build interactive dynamic charts using Highcharts
• Step-by-step guide for exploring this highly effective graphical tool with real-world examples
• Gain an insight into the Highcharts API and its custom events

Who This Book Is For

If you are a web developer with a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to quickly get started with this web charting technology, this is the book for you. This book will also serve as an essential guide to those who have probably used a similar library and are now looking at migrating to Highcharts.

In Detail

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your website or web application. Highcharts makes the visualization of the data a breeze by providing more than 20 chart types and an increased level of control over the aesthetics and interactivity of these charts.

This book provides readers with the fundamental knowledge they need to get started with Highcharts development. We will have a look at the features that come packed with the Highcharts library including those of the latest version: 4. You will then start your coding journey by creating charts of different types while also looking at various techniques to accomplish the tasks quickly and more efficiently. This book will prove to be an invaluable guide if you are just starting out with the web charting technology or are migrating from another library to Highcharts. Finally, you will learn about data preprocessing techniques and exporting your charts to different formats to be downloaded by the end user.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Highcharts
Chapter 2. Column and Bar Charts
Chapter 3. Line and Spline Charts
Chapter 4. Area, Scatter, and Bubble Charts
Chapter 5. Pie, Polar, and Spider Web Charts
Chapter 6. Other Chart Types
Chapter 7. Theming with Highcharts
Chapter 8. Exploring Highcharts APIs and Events
Chapter 9. Going Further with Highcharts