Working with ZingChart
Today I've started working with a new javascript charting library called ZingChart. It looks pretty complete, and certainly has a lot of charting styles, plus it's touting it's speed with large data sets, so that's nice. But as with anything like this, the learning curve is steep because the graph has to be configured in javascript, and it's always a lot of work to know not only How to do something, but also What's possible to be done.
Compounding this is that the documentation and the examples have contradictory information - I mean not even close! I spent several hours on trying to just get a nice pie chart going. But in the end, all the knobs are there and we don't have to worry that there's something we simply cannot do.
As an interesting note, they include the complete jQuery library in their 'resources' directory. It's something I've read a lot about, and it was available when I was doing my last web development work a few lifetimes ago, but we didn't use it because the Google Visualization Toolkit was more than enough for what we needed, and the need just didn't arise.
But it's interesting that it's all there. Very nice looking graphs.
Odd that they don't have a table. Guess I'll have to fall back to Google Visualizations for that.