Instant JQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis

Visualize and analyze your data with the jQuery Flot plotting library using real-world examples

Overview

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
• Apply statistical techniques to your data and display data using various chart types
• Get started with the jQuery Flot library and learn to apply it to real-world data visualization
• Detailed explanations of Flot’s capabilities and configurations

In Detail

Data visualization and analysis is a crucial skill in many software projects. Flot uses jQuery and HTML5 to add easy and powerful visualization capabilities to any web application. Flot produces beautiful visualizations with a minimal amount of code. It is also highly configurable, extensible, and includes many plugins out of the box.

A practical guide to take you through the basics of using Flot to visualize your data; the book describes Flot’s functionality in dedicated sections that include code, screenshots, and detailed explanations so that you can learn to produce charts in minutes. As you progress though this book, it will guide you through real-world examples to show you how to use statistical techniques with Flot for interactive data visualization and analysis.

Starting with the very basics, you will learn exactly what you need to do to display the simplest chart using Flot. This step-by-step guide takes you through Flot’s many features and settings until you can finally master the techniques you’ll need to apply Flot to your application’s data.

You'll learn to create basic point, line, and bar charts and to use Flot’s stack, pie, and time plugins to create specialized chart types. Along with learning to display complex data with multiple customizable axes you will learn to make your charts interactive with Flot’s crosshair plugin. Finally, this book will guide you through learning statistical techniques via the jStat JavaScript library to analyse data; along with Flot’s errorbars and fillbetween plugins to display error margins and data percentiles.

Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis will give you a head start so that you can add data visualization features to your applications with ease.

What you will learn from this book

• Create stack, pie, and time-based charts to display specialized data sets
• Customize a chart’s axes so that you can display complex combinations and types of data
• Add interactivity to your charts so that users can inspect the data with ease
• Use common statistical techniques such as error bars and percentiles to analyze your data
• Use the jStat library to further analyze your data
• Expand your skills by creating plugins that allow you to reuse your custom solutions easily

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A quick, instruction-based guide full of examples that details on the various aspects of Flot and how users can apply it to data groups for interactive data representation techniques.

Who this book is written for

If you are a data visualization developer, mapping and presentation software developer, or anyone with an interest in jQuery visualization, this book is ideal for you. If you have a working knowledge of jQuery and JavaScript, you can use this book to add sophisticated visualizations to your web application so that your users can easily understand data that is crucial to them.

使用jQuery Flot繪圖庫來視覺化和分析您的數據，並使用真實世界的例子。

概述:
- 在短時間內學習新知識！一本短小、快速、專注的指南，立即獲得結果。
- 將統計技術應用於數據並使用各種圖表類型顯示數據。
- 開始使用jQuery Flot庫，並學習如何將其應用於真實世界的數據可視化。
- 詳細解釋Flot的功能和配置。

詳細內容:
- 數據可視化和分析是許多軟件項目中的關鍵技能。Flot使用jQuery和HTML5為任何Web應用程序添加了易於使用和強大的可視化功能。Flot只需少量代碼即可生成美麗的可視化效果。它還具有高度可配置性、可擴展性和許多開箱即用的插件。

這本實用指南將帶您了解使用Flot來視覺化數據的基礎知識；書中以專門的章節描述Flot的功能，包括代碼、截圖和詳細解釋，讓您可以在幾分鐘內學會製作圖表。隨著您閱讀本書，它將通過真實世界的例子指導您如何使用Flot進行交互式數據可視化和分析。

從最基本的開始，您將學習使用Flot顯示最簡單的圖表。這個逐步指南將帶您了解Flot的許多功能和設置，直到您最終掌握應用Flot到應用程序數據所需的技巧。

您將學習創建基本的點、線和條形圖，並使用Flot的堆疊、餅圖和時間插件創建特殊的圖表類型。除了學習使用多個可自定義軸顯示複雜數據外，您還將學習使用Flot的十字線插件使圖表具有交互功能。最後，本書將指導您通過jStat JavaScript庫學習統計技術來分析數據；以及使用Flot的errorbars和fillbetween插件來顯示誤差範圍和數據百分位數。

《即時jQuery Flot視覺數據分析》將讓您輕鬆為應用程序添加數據可視化功能。

從本書中您將學到:
- 創建堆疊、餅圖和基於時間的圖表以顯示特殊的數據集。
- 自定義圖表的軸，以便顯示複雜的數據組合和類型。
- 為圖表添加交互功能，使用戶可以輕鬆檢查數據。
- 使用常見的統計技術，如誤差條和百分位數來分析數據。
- 使用jStat庫進一步分析數據。
- 通過創建插件來擴展您的技能，以便輕鬆重用自定義解決方案。

方法:
- 充滿實用的逐步指令和清晰解釋，涵蓋最重要和最有用的任務。這是一本快速、基於指令的指南，充滿了例子，詳細介紹了Flot的各個方面以及用戶如何將其應用於數據組的交互式數據表示技術。

本書適合的讀者:
- 如果您是數據可視化開發人員、地圖和演示軟件開發人員，或者對jQuery可視化有興趣的任何人，這本書非常適合您。如果您具備jQuery和JavaScript的工作知識，您可以使用本書將複雜的可視化效果添加到您的Web應用程序中，以便您的用戶可以輕鬆理解對他們至關重要的數據。