SVG Charts

By ealis

I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a code to render SVG Charts server side and serve it to user. I know there are a lot of solution out there that do graphs, but most of them are in flash or a system the spew out images. I have to admit they they all look nice, and quite affordable. But I realized that there are no good SVG chart engine out there. And this not in any of my KPIs just decided that it is a good project to start.
Below the quickpress (in the admin dashboard), there is a nice flash chart running.
I’ve written the code in asp and for now I’ve got 4 charts running pie(easy), bar, line, and scatter. I’m trying to make it as web 2.0 as possible, the reflective base, that semi-circle shade etc. For the charts available i’ve added the option to make each more presentable, pie-doughnut, pi-split, bar&line with 3-D look, line-fill etc. In the end it looked quite, it can even beat excel 2003 (not 2007) generated graphs easily on the look dept (as any of the web chart engine available).
But more work need to be done to it; more charts type to be added, live trending (with ajax), etc. The code is in asp, but later I’m planning to rewrite it in javascript, and instead of having the data sent to asp in url encode, I’m planning to put some not existent data island on the html and have javascript parse that data island.
How do I add svg stuff to wordpress.

One Response to “SVG Charts”

  1. stelt Says:

    I have a whole category of links on charting at my SVG links page http://svg.startpagina.nl
    Including some very nice stuff

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