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5 tips for writing great chart captions

by Hrishikesh Choudhari on June 11, 2012 · 0 comments

in Charting Guidelines

Your users are becoming busier by the day. Your charts are packing in more info, and are becoming denser by the day. As a result, if users need more than a few seconds to grasp the significance of the data plots, we’ve lost the game. We need to provide the meta information in a concise manner to enable at-a-glance comprehension. This is where the chart caption comes into focus. It occupies a very prominent place in a chart, and a well-written caption makes a chart much easier to comprehend by an order of magnitude. In this post let us review a few tips in writing concise and telling captions.
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JavaScript gauges, funnel chart and bullet graphs now available in FusionWidgets XT

by Pallav Nadhani on January 25, 2012 · 0 comments

in News & Announcements

Last quarter, we released FusionCharts XT with enhanced JavaScript charts to bring a delightful and homogeneous charting experience across PCs, Macs, iOS and Android devices. Continuing our quest to bring rich visualizations to users across platforms and devices, we now present to you FusionWidgets XT.

All the gauges, funnel and pyramid charts, sparklines and bullet graphs that you have been relishing till now in Flash are now available for your use in JavaScript, enabling you to build dashboards that now work seamlessly on iPads and iPhones as well.

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PowerCharts v3.2 released with HTML5 support and heat map chart

January 20, 2011 News & Announcements
PowerCharts v3.2 released with HTML5 support and heat map chart

We had been gone for some time after getting FusionCharts iPad-ready and sending it to school. But we put the time to good use and are delighted to bring PowerCharts to you in its most…well…powerful avatar ever – v3.2.

Just like FusionCharts v3.2, most of the charts in PowerCharts are now iPad ready with the ability to…

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FusionCharts is now iPad ready!

September 21, 2010 News & Announcements
FusionCharts is now iPad ready!

FusionCharts is now ready for your iPads and iPhones too.

The newest release of FusionCharts – v3.2  – includes both Flash and JavaScript charting, thereby giving you the best of both worlds. And, all of this without having to write an additional line of code. FusionCharts v3.2 comes bundled with HighCharts, the best JavaScript charting solution in the market, which is used for plotting charts on iPad/iPhone and Flash…

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FusionCharts and Javascript – The Chemistry

July 23, 2009 Tutorials
FusionCharts and Javascript – The Chemistry

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:

Create comprehensive sales reports: Show a chart at the top with summarized sales info for say 5 years. Then allow the user to click on any of these years for more details in the same page, without any page…

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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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