Grafico Charts

08 Feb 2010 | By Alex Young | Tags libraries graphics charts

Grafico is a charting library that provides line, area, stacked and bar graphs, as well as various types of sparklines.

Grafico also includes features like pop-up hovers. All of the features are covered in the documentation.

The API looks like this:

var graph = new Grafico.GraphType($(element), data, options);

So drawing a line graph is easy:

var linegraph = new Grafico.LineGraph($('linegraph'), { workload: [8, 10, 6, 12, 7, 6, 9] });

Grafico is actually based on a library called Ico that I made. Ico has some history behind it: I attempted to replicate the advice in Stephen Few’s books to create a library that intuitively produces usable and clean graphs. I’m still working on Ico — I’ve been benchmarking it to improve speed and remove the Prototype dependency.

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