INSTANT JQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis

By Brian Peiris

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A quick, instruction-based guide full of examples that details on the various aspects of Flot and how users can apply it to data groups for interactive data representation techniques.If you are a data visualization developer, mapping and presentation software developer, or anyone with an interest in jQuery visualization, this book is ideal for you. If you have a working knowledge of jQuery and JavaScript, you can use this book to add sophisticated visualizations to your web application so that your users can easily understand data that is crucial to them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Oct 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781783280667

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Table of Contents

Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis

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About the Author

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis

Creating basic charts (Must know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Line charts

Point charts

Bar charts

Area charts

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying multiple series on the same chart

Using different chart types for each series

Creating stacked charts (Must know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Stacked bar charts

Stacked area charts

How it works...

There's more...

Grouping series in to multiple stacks

Creating pie charts (Must know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

A simple pie chart

A labeled pie chart

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a tilted donut chart

Creating a labeled pie chart with combined sections

Working with axes (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Making axes interactive

Tracking curves (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Tracking a curve with the crosshair

Plotting time series

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Using custom date and time formats

Displaying error bars (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using custom end caps on an asymmetric, horizontal error bar

Displaying percentiles (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Incorporating statistics with Flot (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Plotting a normal distribution curve

Applying Flot (Should know)

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Creating custom plugins (Become an expert)

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis

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Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis

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Credits

Author

Brian Peiris

Reviewers

Alex Bliss

Marco Franssen

Mihir Mone

Acquisition Editors

Vinay Argekar

Akram Hussain

Lead Technical Editor

Manasi Pandire

Technical Editor

Novina Kewalramani

Project Coordinator

Joel Goveya

Proofreaders

Paul Hindle

Ameesha Green

Production Coordinator

Manu Joseph

Cover Work

Manu Joseph

Cover Image

Disha Haria

About the Author

Brian Peiris is a developer with a passion for the Web and all things technological. He's been programming for more than 15 years and has been a professional web developer for 7 years. Brian has followed jQuery since its inception and has used Flot extensively in commercial projects. When he's not coding, Brian enjoys tinkering with electronics, robotics, and playing the guitar and violin.

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