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Learning Highcharts

Design and implement stunning data visualizations for your web applications using Highcharts

Design and implement stunning data visualizations for your web applications using Highcharts

About This Video

• Start with basic Highcharts functionalities and get to an advanced level in a couple of hours
• Learn to use and style the most appropriate chart types for your web applications
• Develop rich, interactive charts with superb user experiences and cross-platform compatibility
• This course is full of life-like examples and well-commented source code so you understand easier

In Detail

Data is all around us, but to understand it all, you need to represent the data so that most people can analyze it easily. Highcharts is one of the most popular JavaScript charting libraries, and has an advanced edge as you can add interactive graphical charts to your websites. Highcharts helps developers represent large sets of data in an interesting and interactive way, establishing itself as one of the industry leaders in JavaScript-based charting tools.

Learning Highcharts will walk you through an exciting journey of creating interactive charts to develop incredible web applications.

This video course is a complete knowledge bank that will teach you practical and advanced techniques with Highcharts. The course starts off with a brief introduction to Highcharts explaining different chart types, chart layouts, options, and styling. We continue by working with different data formats such as CSV, XML, and JSON using AJAX. Then, you’ll learn how to export chart images on your own server and finally we look at how to integrate jQuery Mobile with Highcharts.

Learning Highcharts not only introduces you to creating charts, but also guarantees that by the end of this course, you will be building high-quality, insightful visual experiences on the Web.

Course Curriculum

Highcharts Introduction

• The Course Overview (3:00)
• Getting Started with Highcharts (5:15)
• Creating Your First Chart (9:17)

Configuring Highcharts Features and Layouts

• Common Charting Features (3:07)
• Configuring the Title, Subtitle, and Axes of Your Chart (4:06)
• Data Series, Legend, Layout, and Color Settings (11:50)

Configuring Highcharts with More Options

• Tooltips, Labels, and String Formatting (5:12)
• Plot Lines, Plot Bands, and the Zoom Feature (5:01)
• 3D Charts, Animation, and Multiple Data Series (8:11)

Chart and Series Types

• Line, Scatter, and Bubble Charts (6:29)
• Area Charts and Area Spline Charts (4:00)
• Bar and Column Charts (4:39)
• Pie Charts (4:04)

Working with Data

• Working with Different Data Formats (3:45)
•  Drilling Down and Filtering Data (5:25)
• Using CSV, XML, or JSON (7:38)
• Working with Date Formats (4:50)
• Getting Data from a Database (4:13)
• Getting Data Across Domains (JSONP) (4:22)

User Interaction

• Making Graphs Zoomable (3:29)
• Creating Master Detail Graphs (5:25)
• Chart Annotation (2:48)
• Dynamic Tooltips (3:32)

Sharing Charts on the Web

• Exporting Images in Different Formats (6:24)
• E-mailing Static Charts (4:01)
• E-mailing Dynamic Charts (2:23)
• Preparing Charts for Printing (3:13)

Highcharts on Mobile Platforms

• A Brief Introduction to jQuery Mobile (4:29)
• The jQuery Mobile Standard Structure (4:32)
• Integrating Highcharts and jQuery Mobile (3:08)
• Gestures – Drilling down, Point and Click, and Pinch (5:19)