delusionofgrandeur

In the last couple of days, I’ve been looking over a new discovery of mine: Open Flash Charts.

Open Flash Charts is a project which seems to have been going since last year producing, as the name implies, [free] open-source flash chart software. OFC allows you to visualise your data on your website or in your web-oriented applications with fancy mouse-over effects, interactivity and animations. It caters for many types of chart including variations of bar, line and pie charts.

As the project creater like to point out, closed-source software for the same purpose typically costs thousands so the ‘free’ part is a real bonus here.

Below I’ve visualised the Halifax and Nationwide house price data to date as an example:

This really is the simplest stock setup of a chart, apart from having two lines, it is essentially running the out-of-the-box settings. The chart is called from a ‘flat’ data file in this case but the php-driven design allows for data to be pulled directly from a database to generate a chart which updates in real time.

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