New View Type: Chart view

I would love to see this, espescially if it included some method to convert views into flow charts.

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
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It's true, i forgot the google chart API, good idea :)

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You should check out http://drupal.org/project/chart as well as http://drupal.org/project/charts . Chart module is a nice API for creating google charts. Haven't tried out charts.modules yet.

From my (little) experience with Google Charts API I concluded that in many cases it's encoding does not always allow for a sufficiently large data resolutution. For example, if you're trying to graph monthly return rates of a bunch of 5 stocks, you'll only be able to graph one year, because you can't fit more data in the image url.

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Guys,

Its great news some is interesting on the subject. lets see if i can help you out on this! Im the programmer behind Charts module.

1* Charts module (at the moment) is in Alpha because there are many features that should be designed and implemented, so there is room for you to work on.

2* Possible areas:
* Data Schema: extend the data structure for building all kinds of charts from all providers like Google Charts or Open Flash Chart (including "special effects" and "unique features" for each provider)
* Third party Charts integration: integrate with other chart providers and refine/optimize the existing ones.
* CCK integration: insert the charts on every kind of of content.
* Views integration: using views to query contents, build charts instead a list of contents
* Administration: provide several administration pages for Drupal: control contents, users, taxonomy, comments, system logs, visiting statistics using charts. Also, create helper functions for other modules use it easily.
* Documentation: Charts module is mostly a helper module, not a end-user one. Its mostly designed to developers, so a good documentation is crucial
* Data Insertion GUI: the module provides a unified data structure, but what about a nice interface to insert the data and configure the chart (JavaScript/AJAX or Flash might be required)

3* I will love your help on this. I dont know if you have a tutor/guide on this, but in case not, i will be glad to be.

regards,

massa

Hi,

I recently had graphing needs are part of the trackfield_graph.module development (see http://drupal.org/project/trackfield).

Thought about Google Graphs, but they didn't seem to have the flexibility required. Eventually I settled on using jpgraph:

http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/

FWIW, I'm using a browser right now with no Flash plugin, flash graph is not really much good then.

How about a graph abstraction layer that could render plain images on the server for normal browser display (as per jpgraph), or use flash graph or Google graphs (as you mention), or some other output type (PDF, SVG, etc)? This would be much more useful I think. Of course it's very much more complicated but would have a much nicer outcome. Depending on the rendering method the admin/user has chosen some of the graph features might be missing of course - handing missing features is part of the challenge.

Oh, someone mentioned CSS graphs, there is a chart library based on jsGraphics (http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm) here: http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/chart/jsgdemo.html

great module, would even better if the developer consider extending with the google chart maps
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/#maps

Either drupal.org/project/charts or drupa.org/project/chart which uses the Google API

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Guys,

anyone has any news about Russ Creech? He needs to complete the first part of the work, otherwise he will lose the sponsorship from Google.

Im not having success on contacting him by email.

regards,

massa

Subscribing.
I've done a bit of work with Fusion Charts (http://drupal.org/node/264933) which I hope can be incorporated into this project.

Adding a Google Charts plugin for views
http://drupal.org/node/232818

This is part of the Views documentation

Over 6 years later now, not sure how to describe my discovery of this interesting discussion ... Either it's like "history repeats", or "same old story that still applies today". Anybody still interested knowing what the story looks like today, go visit the Chart 2.0 issue, at https://www.drupal.org/node/2368793.

Anybody interested in joining that party over there (access to it is free, though contributing to it would be appreciated), please let me know, either "there", or "here" ...

FYI: I'm a new co-maintainer of the chart module, not to be confused with the charts module, of which I'm not a co-maintainer. At least not yet, despite some recent suggestions in that issue that I should consider asking for becoming a co-maintainer of charts also. The chart module is currently the most "installed" module in charting-land, with over 26K sites using it, and which is more then the sum of all other charting modules available. And "my" current priority nr 1 is fighting the upcoming April 2015 deadline for the chart module. At this time we're considering what the valid approaches are that should be considered as the future of the chart module. Some type of merger with the charts module has been suggested recently. Fingers crossed that by April 2015 we don't have to create a chart-issue with a title like "Get out of here ... now".