Visualize, Create Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas

Filamentgroup wrote a great article describing a technique how to use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element.

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The technique is particularly useful because the data for the visualization already exists in the page in structured tabular format, making it accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology.

Now they rewritten and extended the code behind this technique and packaged it up as a new jQuery plugin called “visualize“. The plugin provides a simple method for generating bar, line, area, and pie charts from an HTML table, and allows you to configure them in a variety of ways.

Demo: http://www.filamentgroup.com/examples/charting_v2/index_2.php
License: MIT, GPL License

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