Create a Chart in jQuery
FusionTime is a JavaScript charting library that helps you visualize and explore time-series data. In FusionTime, you get lots of out-of-the-box interactive features, such as time navigator, date range selectors, tooltips with crosslines, interactive legend, and more. These features enhance the experience of exploring and understanding time series data.
We have built a simple jquery-fusioncharts
plugin which provides bindings for FusionTime. The jquery-fusioncharts
plugin allows you to easily add interactive time-series charts to any jQuery project.
In this page, we'll see how to install FusionTime and render an interactive time-series chart using the jquery-fusioncharts
plugin.
Installation
Since FusionTime is distributed along with FusionCharts Suite, download/install the FusionCharts package to get access to FusionTime. To install follow the steps below:
fusiontime
and the jquery-fusioncharts
module via npm follow the steps below:jquery-fusioncharts
module.
$ npm install jquery-fusioncharts --save
fusioncharts
package
$ npm install fusioncharts --save
fusiontime
and the jquery-fusioncharts
module follow the steps below:- Include the jquery core library.
- Include the
jquery-fusioncharts
module. - Include the FusionCharts JavaScript files from CDN.
- Include the
fusiontime
file to render time-series charts.
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/fusioncharts/fusioncharts.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/fusioncharts.timeseries.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://rawgit.com/fusioncharts/fusioncharts-jquery-plugin/develop/dist/fusioncharts.jqueryplugin.min.js"></script>
</head>
fusiontime
and the jquery-fusioncharts
component follow the steps below:- Include the jQuery core library.
- Include the
jquery-fusioncharts
module. - Include the FusionCharts JavaScript files locally.
- Include the
fusiontime
file to render time-series charts.
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/local/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/local/fusioncharts.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/local/fusioncharts.timeseries.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/local/fusioncharts.jqueryplugin.min.js"></script>
</head>
Create Your First Chart
Let's create a time-series chart using jquery-fusioncharts
component showing Daily sales of a grocery store.
The chart will look as shown below:
The data for the above chart is too big to be displayed here. The table below shows the sample data of the above chart:
Time | Sales |
---|---|
1/4/2011 | 16.448 |
1/5/2011 | 272.736 |
1/5/2011 | 11.784 |
1/5/2011 | 3.54 |
1/6/2011 | 19.536 |
1/7/2011 | 2573.82 |
1/7/2011 | 609.98 |
FusionTime accepts a DataTable as the data source. DataTable
is the tabular representation of data. To create the DataTable
, you need to provide the following:
schema
- which defines the properties of the columns.data
- which contains the values of each row and column of the DataTable.
For an instance of FusionTime, you can create
n
number ofDataTables
, but only oneDataStore
.
Now, let's learn how to prepare the schema and the data of the DataTable
.
Create the schema
The schema outlines each column represented in the above table. The schema contains an array which has multiple objects created in it. Each object represents a column of the above table.
name
andtype
are mandatory keys for each object. If the object type istime
thenformat
is also a mandatory key.
To define the schema, let's create a schema.json
file and copy the following code:
It is not mandatory to create the schema in a different
.json
file. You can also define the schema within the.html
file.
[{
"name": "Time",
"type": "date",
"format": "%-m/%-d/%Y"
}, {
"name": "Sales",
"type": "number"
}]
In the above code:
schema
is the variable in which the array is stored.- Each object of a schema maps to a column of the tabular representation of the data.
- The JSON object has the following attributes:
- name - Specify the name of the column of the tabular representation of data
- type - Specify the type of the column.
- format - Specify the input format of the date as per your data. In this example, the format is
%-m/%-d/%Y
. To know more on date formats click here.
Now that we have the schema ready, let's work on the data.
Create data
Data can be provided either in JSON format or 2D array format. We will use the 2D array format.
Data for the above chart is too big to be shown here. A sample of it has been used in the data object defined below:
[
[
"1/4/2011",
16.448
],
[
"1/5/2011",
272.736
],
[
"1/5/2011",
11.784
],
[
"1/5/2011",
3.54
],
[
"1/6/2011",
19.536
],
[
"1/7/2011",
2573.82
],
]
Create a new data.json
file, and copy the above code there. Next, copy the entire data and replace it with the content of the data object in your 'data.json' file.
It is not mandatory to create a
data.json
file. You can also do the same in your HTML file.
In the above code:
data
is the variable in which the data array is stored.- Each object in the data array corresponds to a row in the tabular representation of the data.
- Each element in an object is represented by each object of the
schema
. The values in each object of the array represent the following:- Time according to the format
- Total Sales amount
We are all set with our data to create the chart.
By default, FusionTime applies the average function to aggregate the data and display on the chart. You can change the aggregate function from
average
to any other numeric calculation. To know more click here.
Now, let's create the files to render the above chart.
Render the chart
To render the chart, create a .js
file and copy the following code:
const $ = require('jquery');
const TimeSeries = require('fusioncharts/fusioncharts.timeseries');
const FusionCharts = require('fusioncharts');
const jQueryFusionCharts = require('jquery-fusioncharts');
TimeSeries(FusionCharts); // Resolve TimeSeries as dependency for FusionCharts.
jQueryFusionCharts(FusionCharts); // Resolve FusionCharts as dependency for jqueryFusionCharts.
var jsonify = res => res.json();
var dataFetch = fetch(
'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/fusion.store/ft/data/line-chart-with-time-axis-data.json'
).then(jsonify);
var schemaFetch = fetch(
'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/fusion.store/ft/schema/line-chart-with-time-axis-schema.json'
).then(jsonify);
Promise.all([dataFetch, schemaFetch]).then(res => {
const data = res[0];
const schema = res[1];
// First we are creating a DataStore
const fusionDataStore = new FusionCharts.DataStore();
// After that we are creating a DataTable by passing our data and schema as arguments
const fusionTable = fusionDataStore.createDataTable(data, schema);
$('document').ready(function() {
$('#chart-container').insertFusionCharts({
type: 'timeseries',
width: '600',
height: '400',
dataFormat: 'json',
dataSource: {
data: fusionTable,
caption: {
text: 'Sales Analysis'
},
subcaption: {
text: 'Grocery'
},
yAxis: [
{
plot: {
value: 'Grocery Sales Value',
type: 'line'
},
format: {
prefix: '$'
},
title: 'Sale Value'
}
]
}
});
});
});
browserify
, to bundle the script. Click here to know more.
$ browserify script.js -o bundle.js
var jsonify = res => res.json();
var dataFetch = fetch(
'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/fusion.store/ft/data/line-chart-with-time-axis-data.json'
).then(jsonify);
var schemaFetch = fetch(
'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/fusion.store/ft/schema/line-chart-with-time-axis-schema.json'
).then(jsonify);
Promise.all([dataFetch, schemaFetch]).then(res => {
const data = res[0];
const schema = res[1];
// First we are creating a DataStore
const fusionDataStore = new FusionCharts.DataStore();
// After that we are creating a DataTable by passing our data and schema as arguments
const fusionTable = fusionDataStore.createDataTable(data, schema);
$('document').ready(function() {
$('#chart-container').insertFusionCharts({
type: 'timeseries',
width: '600',
height: '400',
dataFormat: 'json',
dataSource: {
data: fusionTable,
caption: {
text: 'Sales Analysis'
},
subcaption: {
text: 'Grocery'
},
yAxis: [{
plot: {
value: 'Grocery Sales Value',
type: 'line'
},
format: {
prefix: '$'
},
title: 'Sale Value'
}]
}
});
});
});
var jsonify = res => res.json();
var dataFetch = fetch(
'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/fusion.store/ft/data/line-chart-with-time-axis-data.json'
).then(jsonify);
var schemaFetch = fetch(
'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/fusion.store/ft/schema/line-chart-with-time-axis-schema.json'
).then(jsonify);
Promise.all([dataFetch, schemaFetch]).then(res => {
const data = res[0];
const schema = res[1];
// First we are creating a DataStore
const fusionDataStore = new FusionCharts.DataStore();
// After that we are creating a DataTable by passing our data and schema as arguments
const fusionTable = fusionDataStore.createDataTable(data, schema);
$('document').ready(function() {
$('#chart-container').insertFusionCharts({
type: 'timeseries',
width: '700',
height: '400',
dataFormat: 'json',
dataSource: {
data: fusionTable,
caption: {
text: 'Sales Analysis'
},
subcaption: {
text: 'Grocery'
},
yAxis: [{
plot: {
value: 'Grocery Sales Value',
type: 'line'
},
format: {
prefix: '$'
},
title: 'Sale Value'
}]
}
});
});
});
In the above code:
- A DataStore is created by declaring a new constant
fusionDataStore
. Define the chart configuration in the FusionCharts constructor:
Set the type as
timeseries
.Set the chart container as
container
using therenderAt
property.Set the width and height (in pixels).
Set the name of the
DataTable
as the value of thedata
property ofdataSource
.Set the data to create the chart.
Specify the caption of the chart using
text
attribute in thecaption
object.
Also, include the following code in your .html
file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
<title>Jquery FusionTime</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="chart-container">FusionCharts will render here...</div>
<script src="./bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery FusionCharts Plugin Sample</title>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"
></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/fusioncharts/fusioncharts.js"
></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/fusioncharts.timeseries.js"
></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://rawgit.com/fusioncharts/fusioncharts-jquery-plugin/develop/dist/fusioncharts.jqueryplugin.min.js"
></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="chart-container">FusionCharts will render here...</div>
<script src="./index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery FusionCharts Plugin Sample</title>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"
></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/fusioncharts/fusioncharts.js"
></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/fusioncharts.timeseries.js"
></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="https://rawgit.com/fusioncharts/fusioncharts-jquery-plugin/develop/dist/fusioncharts.jqueryplugin.min.js"
></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="chart-container">FusionCharts will render here...</div>
<script src="./index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
That's it! Your first chart in jQuery using FusionTime is ready.