Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday April 29, 2007 @04:44AM from the make-a-pac-man-pie-chart-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article describes techniques you can use to create new levels of usefulness in your dynamically generated charts with Perl and GD. Cook up some automatically generated graphs for your organizational meetings or live enterprise directory data. Annotate the charts with readable text that delivers more information than the standard pie chart. Using the power of GD and Perl, you can link various data and images together to create sophisticated charts that will help bring visual interest to your applications."

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So close by niceone · 2007-04-29 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Ah, the summary was so close to getting the words 'perl' and 'readable' in the same sentence (possibly for the first time), but just couldn't quite pull it off.

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We all know... by ytm · 2007-04-29 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

...that pie charts are evil. However there are exceptions, like this one: http://themot.org/gallery/d/58721-1/pacmanchart.pn g. Most informative.