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Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Post by joseph_cooney »

fein wrote: post #38

Not a single mention of flotr2 in this thread? I'm not sure if I should be mortified or impressed. It's free, and I don't see many features added that flotr2 doesn't have. http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/documentation

Agree - Flotr2 is awesome. To be fair this library seems to offer a little more in terms of interactive charts, which I don't think FLotr2 does much (I know you can kind of get 'selection' in pie charts, but I don't know of anything else).

Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Post by fein »

joseph_cooney wrote: post #61
fein wrote: post #38

Not a single mention of flotr2 in this thread? I'm not sure if I should be mortified or impressed. It's free, and I don't see many features added that flotr2 doesn't have. http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2/documentation

Agree - Flotr2 is awesome. To be fair this library seems to offer a little more in terms of interactive charts, which I don't think FLotr2 does much (I know you can kind of get 'selection' in pie charts, but I don't know of anything else).

you can get 'selection' in bars with the mouse options. I've hacked in better functionality before; it really is not difficult. Pretty much comes down to modding the redraw on mouseclick.

I still cant see how this would justify a $300 price tag, but perhaps its the FOSS philosophy taking over.

I dunno. I prefer to release anything I deem worthy of ridicule by the FOSS community under wtfpl. Power to the people!

Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Post by chaostheory »

pessimizer wrote: post #50
Demiurge wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a world of so many wonderful free open source graphing libraries, it's hard to see any reasonable licensing option for this. It might help if there was a page that listed features that a developer could not accomplish for $300 in flot, highcharts, or ndv3, or other popular options.

Highcharts isn't free either, at least for commercial use.

It's cheaper.

Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Post by Ecio78 »

chaostheory wrote: post #64
pessimizer wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Highcharts isn't free either, at least for commercial use.

It's cheaper.

Highcharts is cheaper if you use it for a single webpage (90$) but if you want to use if for a real web app it's more expensive (590$ for a single developer). Having said that, in my enterprise my dev colleagues use it and they think it's a great product.

EDIT: if you host it for a personal/non-profit project it is free according to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License

another product we've used in the past is Amcharts, good buy maybe not good as Highcharts

Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Post by venomsnake »

wheaties wrote: post #17

Wow, these interactive charts are great. Can't wait to pay for something like this unless there's already wonderfully interactive charting libraries out there like nvd3 ( http://nvd3.org/ ), dc ( http://nickqizhu.github.io/dc.js/ ) crossfilter ( http://square.github.io/crossfilter/ ) or even anything from d3's website ( https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery )

And microsoft totally stopped selling and developing windows server when there were two other awesome free server operating systems ...
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