Table of Contents

* Charting Technology Overview * jQuery Basics * Simple HTML Tables * Drawing a Line Chart * Drawing a Bar Chart * Drawing a Pie Chart * Creating a Library for Simple Charts * Introducing jqPlot * Line Charts with jqPlot * Bar Charts with jqPlot * Pie Charts with jqPlot * Candlestick Charts with jqPlot * Bubble Charts with jqPlot * Other Charts with jqPlot * Adding Controls to Charts * Embedding jqPlot Charts in jQuery Widgets * Handling Input Data * Moving from jqPlot to Highcharts * Introducing D3 * Line Charts with D3 * Bar Charts with D3 * Pie Charts with D3 * Candlestick Charts with D3 * Scatterplot and Bubble Charts with D3 * Radar Charts with D3 * Handling Live Data with D3 * App A: Guidelines for the Examples in the Book * App B: jqPlot Plugins

About the Author

Fabio Nelli, is an IT Scientific Application Specialist at IRBM Science Park, a private research center in Pomezia, Roma (Italy). He has beena computer consultant for many years at IBM, EDS, Merck Sharp, and Dohme, along with several banks and insurance companies.He has an Organic Chemistry degree and many years of experience in Information technologies and Automation systems applied to Life Sciences (Tech Specialist at Beckman Coulter Italy and Spain).He is currently developing Java applications that interface Oracle databases with scientific instrumentations generating data and web server applications providing analysis of the results to researchers in real time.