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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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Debugging JavaScript charts with FusionCharts XT – Part 5

by Hrishikesh Choudhari on March 21, 2012 · 0 comments

in Tutorials

In the 5th and final part of the FusionCharts XT in PHP series, we will learn how to debug our charts. Debugging helps us know what happens behind the scenes while rendering a chart. With the FusionCharts JavaScript Debug Mode, we can generate a complete log of the internal events, as well as any errors that crop up. Since the JavaScript charts are rendered only by the browser, the debug logs will be available in the browser’s Console Log. Let us begin debugging!
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Honey I Shrunk the Codes

February 23, 2011 Tutorials
Honey I Shrunk the Codes

A little dip into the ocean of options available with the new FusionCharts 3.2 JavaScript Library. Know the three different JS syntax to render FusionCharts and some useful set of tips to make your coding life a bit easier.

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4 things to know to create an intuitive drill-down interface

February 8, 2011 Charting Guidelines
4 things to know to create an intuitive drill-down interface

Drill-down charts are everywhere. They help maximize business information by presenting the data in digestible chunks. While implementing drill-down charts is no rocket science (shameless plug: especially with our first-of-its-type LinkedCharts concept), the interface for using them still has some way to go. Haven’t you ever come across a report where you had no idea that the charts could be drilled down into? Or you drilled down multiple…

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A tip a day – Archive

July 8, 2010 Charting Guidelines
A tip a day – Archive

We shared a charting tip a day all of June on our Twitter handle. The tips covered topics like chart selection, usability guidelines and how to make the most out of FusionCharts. In case you missed out, here are our words of wisdom put together:

Tip 1: Use a column/bar chart for comparing individual values and line/area for overall trend…

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30 days, 30 tips and a better world

May 24, 2010 Charting Guidelines
30 days, 30 tips and a better world

Data is everywhere. It is converting it into powerful actionable information that really makes the difference.

In an endeavor to help you offer a powerful reporting experience to your users, we wanted to do our bit too. Come June, we will be tweeting a tip a day for the entire month. These tips would be on topics varying from chart selection to usability guidelines for your chart to things…

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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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