Chart-o-matic: Semantic Charting
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Tonight, I am happy to announce the soon-to-come release of a project I've spend a fair amount of time working on:
Chart-o-matic is a easy-to-use solution for embedding simple charts in web documents. Initially developed as a part of my final year project at university, it will soon be released to the public under BSD-Licence.
What makes Chart-o-matic significantly different from all the other client-side charting libraries is its approach to the visualized information: It takes statistical data that was stored in html tables and turns it into a bar-, line-, or pie-charts. In a way, it does for charts what sIFR does for typography: It preserves the semantics of textual information while still providing a rich graphic experience to the users of modern browsers.
Although it's not completely finished yet, I've put some more Information and a small demonstration of the system together. Have a look at it here: Chart-o-matic project website »
