amCharts Blog — Tag: features

amCharts 5 now has two rendering engines. Charts draw on canvas by default, as before, or as SVG with a single setting. And every chart can now be exported to SVG.

While the Gantt chart was the main star of the new 5.14.0 release of amCharts 5, it also included another significant improvement: Turbo mode. What it does? When enabled on a ColumnSeries (or any of its derivatives like CandlestickSeries or GantSeries), it will streamline rendering of the columns, by consolidating drawing function into one process, […]

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 […]

The Stochastic Momentum Index (SMI) is a technical indicator used in financial analysis to measure the momentum of a security’s price movement. amCharts 5: Stock Chart fully supports this financial tool out-of-the-box.

Regardless of which version of amCharts library you are currently using, we have an update for you: amCharts 5 Beta is available for immediate use now. amCharts 5 is a natural successor to previous versions, and is better in a lot of ways: Blindingly fast amCharts 5 uses canvas technology to deliver crisp charts, quickly. It also uses lightweight data objects, to […]

Venn diagrams are a great tool to show relationships between data sets as well as a great source for all kinds of internet memes. Starting with amCharts 4.9 you can add great interactive Venn diagrams to your web applications. Check out the demos here. And make sure to read through Anatomy of a Venn Diagram […]

The just-released amCharts 4.7.0 introduces a very attractive and important way of automatically grouping data values. We call it dynamic data item grouping and you can read all the details about it in the documentation here. Where is dynamic data grouping useful? Suppose you have 10 years’ worth of daily data to plot. That’s about […]

amCharts 4.5.9 brings a new and welcome feature – you can now place bullets on axes. Combined with recently added Bullets plugin this opens a lot of exciting possibilities. Check out all you need to know to get started in the documentation. Get the latest version of amCharts to put this new feature to use.

amCharts 4.5.7 comes with a new and awesome Bullets plugin enabling you to add configurable shapes as bullets to your charts, markers to your maps, and anything anywhere else for that matter. In addition to getting the great plugin, you also get a visual configurator where you can adjust and preview your custom bullets. Get […]

The recent update to amCharts 4 comes with a ForceDirectedTree plugin that lets you create a bunch of new and exciting chart types. Force-Directed Tree is a special kind of chart used to display of multi-item data related in a hierarchical, linear or mixed way, as a series of linked bubbles. You can find more […]