Data Visualization and Visual Analytics using CanvasJS

What is Visual Analytics?

Visual Analytics is the scientific visualization to emerge an idea to present data in such a way so that it could be easily determined by anyone.

It gives an idea to the human mind to directly interact with interactive visuals which could help in making decisions easy and fast.

Visual Analytics basically breaks the complex data in a simple way.

The human brain is fast and is built to process things faster. So Data visualization provides its way to make things easy for students, researchers, mathematicians, scientists etc.

Why Visual Analytics

There are a couple of  reasons listed below that would witness that why there is a need for Visual Analytics:

Following are:-


Data Visualization and Visual Analytics?

Data visualization is presenting the abstract data in graphical format.

Visual Analytics combines analytical reasoning with the data visualization through which one can judge the complex scenarios and take decisions according to it.

Data Visualization Techniques

This section will cover a few data visualization techniques. This will help you to understand the whole topic in an easy way.

Here are some of the tips that you need to keep in mind:

To explain this in further more detail. Here are four major points to always keep in mind before starting with data visualization.

Purpose: Defining your purpose is the most important. To split this up.

Content: This part focuses on

Structure: Different structures reveal different data, serve different purposes.

Formatting: Formatting highlights what’s important


Introduction to CanvasJS

CanvasJS is a charting library provided support with html5 and javascript for rendering high-end visual charts.

CanvasJs works on various platforms:

Why CanvasJs

CanvasJs provides high-end rich dashboards embedded with beautiful visual charts to enhance the user attraction and to provide rich behavior without any need to worry about maintainability and functionality.

Canvas Js provides:

Canvas lets you draw graphics, arts, performance charts, high visual games on web pages in real life.


Comparison Between CanvasJS and D3.js

Canvas is nothing but an HTML element but when integrated with HTML5 and javascript, it makes a huge difference to visual analysis and performance.

In D3 SVG element, one can include thousands of elements but in case of canvas charts, full pixel size image is produced.

As a result rendered image is full of pixels with great visuals.

Using D3 svg, one can select all the elements and modify the output according to it.

As a result of this process sometimes become complex to adopt and makes an impact on performance.


CanvasJS  Features

CanvasJs features are listed below:

Other Features


Demo for Representing Data in CanvasJS

Consider some raw data related to top five car companies in the world corresponding to their positions as shown in fig.

Top five Cars

Car Position

Renault

5

Nissan

10

Ford

15

Honda

20

Tesla

25

 

For Representing data in CanvasJs through column chart, it would look like the figure shown below.
 

Brief: Canvas js visualize the raw data and integrate it with HTML and javascript code to provide full performance and functionality to the charts.

Below code will give you an idea about how easy to write code using canvas because canvas includes inbuilt functionality and libraries which reduces the line of code and helps to deliver things faster rather making complex codes which sometimes become hard to understand.

Ready to create your first chart using CanvasJs?

The above code can be used to create different types of charts. Let’s get started.

Pretty easy, right?!

Now you got an idea. Some important things to remember.

Chart options consist of-

NOTE: This is just a getting started guide if you like to go through CanvasJs tutorials than visit https://canvasjs.com


Concluding CanvasJS


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