Wednesday 20 March 2013

A comparison of google pie chat and pie charts API from highcharts.com


Google pie charts

Google pie charts are simple and easy to draw. It is rendered within the browser using SVG or VML Displays tooltips when hovering over slices, also a lot of configuration options are available to customize this based on your requirements. The detailed list of configuration options are available at https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/piechart

High Charts


Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering intuitive, interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange and polar chart types. And regarding pie chart a wide variety of options are there for customizing the chart. Also it is compatible with almost al browsers and is animated. The most prominent feature of this API is that you can print the chart or download it as PNG,JPEG,PDF or in SVG vector image format. Here is an example for a pie chart from highcharts api.

Highcharts Example

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