Free & Good HTML Chart Generator

[Bob Dalek]

Anyone know of free & good software that will *easily* allow me to take time series data and create pretty performance charts/graphs from it? Getting the dat aout of my DB is not the issue, it's using the dat ato create charts, etc. Ideally, I'd like to be able to automate the process & have such charts be dynamic.

I have looked at RRDTool & another open source offering - but I am lazy and am looking to get up-and-running ASAP, rather than spend the next 2 weeks trying to install & learn it.

Thanks in advance.

[Spacecadet]

Dundas Charting

its not free.. but then good stuff never is

[Bob Dalek]

Originally Posted by Spacecadet

Dundas Charting

its not free.. but then good stuff never is

Whatever.

[London75]

Does it have to be HTML?

Excel does a very good job with it's data backed pivot chart, all wizrd driven and can work offline (diconnected from database) too.

Being a pivot based on a cube, you can twist the display of stats any way you wish and it's very dynamic.

I thought I'd post because I'm right in the middle of using excel to generate graphs from a 97 million record dataset and it's doing splendidly.

[Bob Dalek]

Originally Posted by London75

Does it have to be HTML?

Excel does a very good job with it's data backed pivot chart, all wizrd driven and can work offline (diconnected from database) too.

Being a pivot based on a cube, you can twist the display of stats any way you wish and it's very dynamic.

I thought I'd post because I'm right in the middle of using excel to generate graphs from a 97 million record dataset and it's doing splendidly.

That'd do for me. Automating it - how's that done? Or is yours manual process each time?

[DimPrawn]

Some free Java applet charts

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/


Or this free ASP.NET charting library

http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/WebChart/Default.aspx

[Spacecadet]

Originally Posted by Bob Dalek

That'd do for me. Automating it - how's that done? Or is yours manual process each time?

so was the HTML requirement a bit of a red herring then?

[London75]

It's quite manual as I'm trying to track down a specific trend in data so changing parameters quite randomly, I'd imagine you could automate very easily with VBA though or if not keen on VBA, record a macro!

[Bob Dalek]

Originally Posted by Spacecadet

so was the HTML requirement a bit of a red herring then?

Whatever.

[Spacecadet]

Originally Posted by Bob Dalek

Whatever.

Is it 2002 again?