AnyChart is a

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for

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in the form of

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chart A chart (sometimes known as a graph) is a graphics, graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can repres ...

s and dashboards. It was initially available as a

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chart component and integrated as such by

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History

AnyChart was first developed in 2003 as a Flash chart component to visualize

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data. In 2007, Oracle licensed AnyChart to implement Flash charting in Oracle Application Express (APEX) used by 100,000 developers monthly as of March 2007. With the APEX 4.2 release in 2012, AnyChart 6 was introduced with the support of

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charts based on SVG rendering in addition to Flash charts. Version 7.x of AnyChart was already completely based on

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and HTML5. AnyChart 8.x first released in 2017 has a modular system and supports more than 90 chart types, including variations of basic charts,

Gantt chart A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a schedule (project management), project schedule. It was designed and popularized by Henry Gantt around the years 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the Dependency (project management), depe ...

meteorological Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agriculture ...

and environmental data graphs (such as air temperature and precipitation, depth measures ), and

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s, along with custom drawing and diverse options to work with data. In 2019, it also became available as visualization extensions for Qlik Sense.

License

AnyChart is free for non-profit use and requires a paid

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for use in

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. Its

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since release 7.13.0. The library's graphics rendering engine is available under the free

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; it was tweaked from AnyChart and open-sourced as a separate JavaScript

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under the name of GraphicsJS in 2016.

Awards

AnyChart has industry awards. In 2016, ProgrammableWeb named it one of the most interesting

big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

and analytics APIs. In 2018, AnyChart won a DEVIES award at DeveloperWeek in California for the Best Innovation in JavaScript Technology.

References

External links

* {{official website, https://www.anychart.com JavaScript libraries JavaScript visualization toolkits Proprietary software Visualization API Charts Data and information visualization software Proprietary cross-platform software Infographics