Ask HN: Best graphing/widget libraries for dashboards?

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by matttah • 12 years ago

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Over the past few years I've seen a ton of new graphing libraries and widget libraries come out aimed at creating sleek dashboards. What libraries are you using, what are their licenses/costs, and what is your favorite part of the library?

bennie• 12 years ago

http://grafana.org/ opensource and free

feralmoan• 12 years ago

http://www.highcharts.com is amazing and used across a lot of the US's biggest investment banks. Creative commons version available or per user/organizational licenses.

http://d3js.org though I have a particular soft spot for.

Huppie• 12 years ago

I second HighchartsJS. The learning curve was minimal (imho) because of the massive amount of examples with jsfiddle links to tweak the settings: http://www.highcharts.com/demo/

Their API reference is pretty good as well: http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts

For our dashboards and most reports we now use a combination of custom Highcharts charts and standard widgets available at Geckoboard.

aba_sababa• 12 years ago

I usually go for DyGraphs. Simple + easy to use + lots of configuration + excellent docs

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