For charts, check this out http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html
The API is damn easy to use. Check their terms and conditions and data privacy sections. Might be relevant depending for who you're doing the work. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> wrote: > The g.Raphael charts are a nice start, imho, but not very complete. The > barcharts are probably among the best, and I think there are ways to set > labels (you'll probably need to view the source). > But there are some common things that are completely missing from the > g.raphael stuff, that might be some work to implement: > - decent date ranges and date scale labelling > - log scales of any kind > It was pretty slow at getting changes and bug fixes for a while - now that > Dmitry is being paid to do this, things might speed up. > The big plus of g.raphael is that the source is reasonably clean and it's > based on Raphael, so it's easy to hack. > Other options I've played with: > - jqplot is nice for quickly doing reasonably styled graphs, has it's own > limits but it's pretty powerful > - flot looked nice, but I had some pain with it; can't really remember what > now, it's probably another viable option > - protovis http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ is what I'm currently using > (mostly - I fall back to pure Raphael for some stuff) - it's a quite > powerful library for complex visualisations. The big negative is that it is > all canvas based, so no IE support at all. > - Korny > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Robert Gravina <robert.grav...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On 9 July 2010 10:35, Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> wrote: >> > I *was* hoping someone had built something in Raphael - it seems the >> > obvious >> > choice for graphically pretty widgets, rather than stuffing around with >> > css >> > and images. >> >> Actually I'm also working with bar charts in gRaphael. The default bar >> char looks great, but it doesn't seem to support labels (in the >> framework itself). >> >> Has anyone done this? It is reasonably simple or is getting the labels >> aligned/trimmed etc. a fair bit of work? >> >> Robert >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > isn't thinking of" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- http://crazyhollywood.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
