6 Best jQuery Interactive Charts and Graphs Libraries

Posted on September 12, 2013 by diteam

Charts and Graphs are an important requirement for any organization. As the web is growing day by day, so the need of interactive charts and graphs has increased tremendously for developers. Thanks to jQuery which has some awesome libraries to accomplish this task beautifully.

Following libraries will help you to draw interesting, colorful and interactive charts and graphs easily. You can customize the features easily. You may also be interested in our other articles on Free Photoshop Actions, Photography Websites, jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Free Illustrator Brushes.

1. FusionCharts Suite XT

FusionCharts provides delightful JavaScript charts and graphs which are ideal for all your web, mobile and enterprise applications. It works well with both XML and JSON data, and can be easily integrated with any JavaScript framework or a server-side technology e.g., ASP.NET, PHP, Java, etc.

FusionCharts Suite XT

Features:

90+ charts and gauges, and 965 data-driven maps
Readymade business dashboards, demos and comprehensive docs
jQuery charting plugin with the easy-to-use jQuery syntax
Real-time charts and gauges
Multi-format chart export options (images/PDF)
Tooltips, interactive legend and intelligent label management
Easy data drill-down options
Formatted numbers, trend-lines and zones
Visual selection and editing of data
It’s free (watermarked) and commercial license also available

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2. jqPlot

jqPlot is a plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework. jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features:

jqPlot

Features:

Numerous chart style options.
Date axes with customizable formatting.
Up to 9 Y axes.
Rotated axis text.
Automatic trend line computation.
Tooltips and data point highlighting.
Sensible defaults for ease of use.

Download jqPlot

3. JS Charts

JS Charts is a JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required. Just include our scripts, prepare your chart data in XML, JSON or JavaScript Array and your chart is ready!

JS Charts

Features:

It’s easy to integrate
It’s customizable
You can setup your charts online
You can create the three most common types of charts: bar, pie and line
It’s compatible with most web browsers
You don’t need any server-side plugins/modules
It’s a 100% JavaScript component
It’s free (watermarked)

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4. jQuery Sparklines

This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.

jQuery Sparklines

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5. Highcharts

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering intuitive, interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange and polar chart types.