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I swear by Highcharts. It's big, and paid for commercial use, but you can chart pretty much anything with it, make it look exactly like you want, and it's relat

I swear by Highcharts. It's big, and paid for commercial use, but you can chart pretty much anything with it, make it look exactly like you want, and it's relatively easy to get started and make nice interactive charts. No affiliation, I just use it for work: http://www.highcharts.com/ http://www.highcharts.com/

randlet 11y ago
Yep. Love HighCharts and HighStock in particular which allows you to create wonderful time series charts.
gt565k 11y ago
HighCharts is awesome. I'm a big fan as well. I've used it for school projects and work before, and was amazed by the documentation and API capabilities. Everything is configurable and easy to figure out.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  I'm still not sure how the "Free for Non-Commercial" license interacts with something like the GPL - it seems like I'd have to use BSD in my projects instead if I wanted to use this in open-source stuff. Edit: it's Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0. I wonder if that stops me running ads on a site that uses it.
  - randlet 11y ago
    FWIW in past I just emailed them asking for clarification about whether I needed a commercial license with my specific use case and they responded quickly and straightforwardly. Seems the easiest thing to do is just ask them rather than guessing or trying to interpret how the license is meant to be used.
  - forty 11y ago
    If you really want to know you should probably ask a lawyer or the rights holder but here is an interesting page: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Defining_Noncommercial https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Defining_Noncommercial "The empirical findings suggest that creators and users approach the question of noncommercial use similarly and that overall, online U.S. creators and users are more alike than different in their understanding of noncommercial use. Both creators and users generally consider uses that earn users money or involve online advertising to be commercial"

randlet 11y ago

Yep. Love HighCharts and HighStock in particular which allows you to create wonderful time series charts.

gt565k 11y ago

HighCharts is awesome. I'm a big fan as well. I've used it for school projects and work before, and was amazed by the documentation and API capabilities. Everything is configurable and easy to figure out.

voltagex_ 11y ago
I'm still not sure how the "Free for Non-Commercial" license interacts with something like the GPL - it seems like I'd have to use BSD in my projects instead if I wanted to use this in open-source stuff. Edit: it's Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0. I wonder if that stops me running ads on a site that uses it.
- randlet 11y ago
  FWIW in past I just emailed them asking for clarification about whether I needed a commercial license with my specific use case and they responded quickly and straightforwardly. Seems the easiest thing to do is just ask them rather than guessing or trying to interpret how the license is meant to be used.
- forty 11y ago
  If you really want to know you should probably ask a lawyer or the rights holder but here is an interesting page: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Defining_Noncommercial https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Defining_Noncommercial "The empirical findings suggest that creators and users approach the question of noncommercial use similarly and that overall, online U.S. creators and users are more alike than different in their understanding of noncommercial use. Both creators and users generally consider uses that earn users money or involve online advertising to be commercial"