I’m having my usual fun with charts. Working on mycheckpoint, I’ve generated monitoring charts using the Google Chars API. But I’ve also had chance to experiment and deploy interactive charts, JavaScript based. In particular, I used and tweaked dygraphs.
I’d like to note some differences in using charts of both kinds. And I think it makes a very big difference.
Static charts
I’ll call any image-based chart by “static chart”. It’s just a static image. Example of such charts are those generated by Google Image Charts (they now also have new, interactive charts), or RRDtool. Show below is an example of a static chart; in this example, generated by Google: Continue reading » “Static charts vs. interactive charts”