[Chicago-talk] Looking for browser-based charting through Perl

Sean Blanton sean at blanton.com
Thu Aug 26 08:36:38 PDT 2010


Thanks, David! I'll check it out!

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:10 AM, David Young <davidy at nationalcycle.com>wrote:

> Sean,
>
> I just finished a project creating bar and line charts.  I tried and liked
> "flot" alot, but it couldn't exactly do what I wanted.  So I abandoned it
> and ended up using jqplot.  jqplot uses a hugely popular and powerful
> javascript library called jquery.  With jqplot, you have perl create a JSON
> formatted string of your data, axis labels, title, etc, and give it to
> jqplot.  jqplot then uses javascript to plot it by inserting the
> plot/chart/graph in an empty <div> on your webpage.  Pretty slick.
>
> I've attached a test HTML file that shows output generated from perl code.
>  You would use something like this in your perl after creating $json &
> $opts:
>
>    # TrendChart
>     $JQPLOT  = qq(
>         \$(document).ready(function () {
>
>            var graph = $json;
>            \$.jqplot('chart3', graph.data, $opts)
>          });
>     );
>
> You'll need to download and install jquery and jqplot and adjust the
> <script> tag paths to make it work.
>
> ydy
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Sean Blanton <sean at blanton.com> wrote:
>
>> I followed this month's exchange on Google Visualizations, but that's out
>> for me since it requires internet connectivity. What other packages would
>> people recommend? I assume a JavaScript based package is the modern way to
>> go. What about Protovis?
>>
>> I basically want to pull data from a database and chart it with Perl -
>> time series, scatter plots, bar graphs - simple things on a local network.
>> Chrome browser. It's possible I might want to do something more interesting
>> later down the road.
>>
>> Not being a web guy, what general approach would you recommend? I breathe
>> Moose, DBI, XML and infrastructure every day, but not so much JavaScript,
>> though I'm always up for new things!.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sean
>>
>>
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