July 2009

Second base with charts: Understanding the Waterfall chart

by Sanket Nadhani on July 30, 2009 · 1 comment

in Charting Guidelines

Everyone hits the first base. But getting to the second base is where a lot of people are lost out. Yes, almost everyone has made use of simple column, line and pie charts at some point of time in their lives. But when your relationship with data starts heating up, the first base just won’t do.

On that note, we start our foray into second base with charting. In this series, we will discuss the basics of some not-so basic charts and their application in real-life. We will start off with the waterfall chart and then follow that up with the multi-level pie chart and the bubble chart. And probably more.

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FusionCharts and Javascript – The Chemistry

by Sanket Nadhani on July 23, 2009 · 19 comments

in Tutorials

FusionCharts Suite shares a great chemistry with Javascript. What does this mean for you? Quite a lot actually. You can combine the two of them to:

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Barack Obama uses FusionCharts

July 16, 2009 Showcase
Barack Obama uses FusionCharts

We were late to pick it up, but this one is too good to let go:

Source: Federal IT Dashboard Blog

Yes, it is Barack Obama using the Federal IT Dashboard where FusionCharts has been used extensively for data visualization.

Mr. President, we hope you liked…

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Less litter, more letters using tooltips

July 15, 2009 Tutorials
Less litter, more letters using tooltips

While discussing a chart during a presentation, you’d probably have to talk at length about each plotted value. The lengthy discussions become particularly unavoidable if you have to cite reasons for declining sales or for an extended period of stagnation. In situations such as this, tooltips come in handy since you can easily display a lot of text on them.

FusionCharts v3.1 allows you to introduce line…

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Read between the plots

July 13, 2009 Tutorials
Read between the plots

You've successfully completed the first six months at your new job as a marketing specialist and the time has come to reveal how you leveraged your ideas for the benefit of the company. So, you make a Revenue chart and tell yourself: “These high-rise things are my contribution.” But you can't tell this to your superiors without seeming boastful.

So what do you do? Simple – just make your…

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Chart data is not just one-way traffic

July 6, 2009 Tutorials
Chart data is not just one-way traffic

Picture this: You are making a sales dashboard to be presented to the upper management of the company. During the presentation, your CFO asks you to pick out the raw data from a particular chart. At that moment, you cannot go back to the underlying database and give him the exact figures, can you? Nor can you afford to waste screen estate on dashboards by displaying tables right below the…

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FusionCharts for Flex v1.1 released

July 3, 2009 News & Announcements
FusionCharts for Flex v1.1 released

FusionCharts for Flex v1.1 is here. This release is special, as gauges and charts from FusionWidgets have been introduced in FusionCharts for Flex. Built on FusionCharts v3.1 framework, the new version is packed with a wide range of new and exciting features. Here’s a brief overview of the new features in FusionCharts for Flex v1.1.

Exciting Gauges

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USASpending.gov uses FusionCharts

July 2, 2009 Showcase
USASpending.gov uses FusionCharts

Americans can see where their money goes using FusionCharts – quite literally. Vivek Kundra, the US national CIO unveiled the new Federal IT dashboard at http://it.usaspending.gov on Tuesday. The dashboards are designed to help Vivek and the CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle on the effectiveness of government IT spending. They also intend to give the public a look at…

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