August 2009

FusionCharts Free now Open Source

by Pallav Nadhani on August 30, 2009 · 3 comments

in News & Announcements

FusionCharts Free is now open-source under the GPL and MIT license.

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How to create a Pareto chart?

by Sanket Nadhani on August 25, 2009 · 1 comment

in Tutorials

Differentiating the important from the not-so important is a very vital task for any management. In this post, we will see how a Pareto chart is a vital tool for the same, and how it can be easily created using the Dual-Y Combination chart in FusionCharts v3.

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FusionCharts Free website: Now chic-and-span

August 19, 2009 News & Announcements
FusionCharts Free website: Now chic-and-span

Everything needs a makeover – and the latest in line was the FusionCharts Free website. Over a period of 3 weeks, we have made it chic-and-span. But why the change?

The web team has cited many technical reasons to justify the change, but the content team speculates that the web team had nothing better to do. On a more serious note, we felt that the website had collected a…

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Second base with charts: Understanding the Bubble chart

August 13, 2009 Charting Guidelines
Second base with charts: Understanding the Bubble chart

When you have a table with 3 related dimensions of data, how do you represent it on a flat 2D chart? Put three column charts side by side, one for each dimension? Or use two XY-plot charts? But both of them will be ineffective in putting together all the 3 parameters in one elegant visualization. Time to say hello to the bubble chart.

In the third and last post…

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Second base with charts: Understanding the Multi-level pie chart

August 7, 2009 Charting Guidelines
Second base with charts: Understanding the Multi-level pie chart

Pie charts have been used, misused and abused. But what about the multi-level pie chart? They have been under-used, to put it simply. Other standard charts have been opted for even when the multi-level pie chart would have been the perfect fit.

So in this post of "Second Base with charts", we will explore the multi-level pie chart and see how it can be used to effectively represent hierarchical…

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