amCharts Gantt

We’re proud to introduce another well-rounded product in amCharts family: Gantt chart. What Is It? A Gantt chart is a visual project management tool that displays tasks along a timeline, making it easy to track deadlines, progress, and dependencies. Each task is represented by a horizontal bar, with its position and length showing the start […]

Introducing Timeline Curve Charts

Starting with version 5.12.0, Timeline chart types are now standard part of amCharts 5: Charts product. What Is It? Basically, Timeline charts can be described as “Curved XY Charts”. Under the hood, it’s still an XYChart with its axes and series, except it can follow one of the few predefined shapes—Serpentine or Spiral—or a completely […]

Implementing “The Chart That Saved Trump’s Life”

We always knew that data-viz was bringing beauty and order to the world. As of July 14th, 2024 it also can claim a badge of the Secret Service officer, having successfully saved a presidential candidate’s life. The Background During rally, presidential candidate Donald Trump has looked away towards this chart displayed on a big screen, […]

DataViz Tip #32: Chart Types: Chord Diagram

Chord Diagrams help us visualize relationships between data arranged beautifully in a circle. You can use Chord Diagrams to visualize data ranging from relationships between Lost characters to Uber rides between neighbourhoods in a city to complex scientific subjects that are even hard to pronounce. amCharts 4 includes powerful tools to create your own interactive […]

DataViz Tip #31: Labels vs. Legends

A rule of thumb is you should annotate your chart items right there next to them whenever possible. This gives your viewers an easy way to evaluate and understand the data presented. This is all great but what if you have a very limited space to work in? You may either be on a smartphone […]

DataViz Tip #30: Let Viewers Change Chart Type

When building an infographic you know exactly what your data looks like and can make an editorial decision on the best way to present it. For web applications, on the other hand, the shape and form of live data coming from some data source are not always known upfront. So, whatever you imagine about the […]

DataViz Tip #29: Mix Multiple Chart Types

Multiple chart types in one visual are nothing new in the infographics space. In your “regular” functional web charting world this almost never happens. Obviously, not all datasets are best expressed with a multi-type chart mix though some are. The primary reason why you never see such “hybrids” in the wild is that it’s often […]