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Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:These charts look like shit by dodobh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The code is out there. Whenever the graphics folks want to start contributing, they can.

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    I can throw myself at the ground, and miss.
  2. The right tool for the right job by espressojim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember how programmers always talk about using the right tool for the right job?

    If you want to do something like graphing, then why not learn a language like R, where you can easily and interactively create amazing visuals in very little time? I write code in Java, python, bash, and interact with Oracle and MySQL database. R fits in as a nice way to visualize data, and it's very easy to script up solutions that you can plug into your programming pipeline.

    Check out http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/index.php for examples (with source code)