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Highcharts Essentials

Create interactive data visualization charts with the Highcharts JavaScript library

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Bilal Shahid  
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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a web developer with a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to quickly get started with this web charting technology, this is the book for you. This book will also serve as an essential guide to those who have probably used a similar library and are now looking at migrating to Highcharts.

    What you will learn

    • Create various chart types including line, column, bar, area, and pie
    • Use best practices and techniques to efficiently visualize the data
    • Customize Highcharts aesthetics with web fonts, different fill types, and jQuery UI for animations
    • Utilize the Highcharts API and events to programmatically accomplish various tasks
    • Preprocess data from various sources to dynamically plot the chart
    • Export your charts to different formats including .pdf, .png, .jpeg, or .svg

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting Started with Highcharts
    2. Column and Bar Charts
    3. Line and Spline Charts
    4. Area, Scatter and Bubble Charts
    5. Pie, Polar, Spider Web Charts
    6. Other Chart Types
    7. Theming with Highcharts
    8. Exploring Highcharts APIs and Events
    9. Going Further
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-397-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 228

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