http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:51:20 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1249 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:52:47 +0000 DK 1249@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>This is probably off topic, but I've been very impressed with ggplot2 and plyr. I wrote a brief post about it at <a href="http://notestoself.posterous.com/ggplot2-plyr-and-yourflowingdata" rel="nofollow">http://notestoself.posterous.com/ggplot2-plyr-and-yourflowingdata</a>. Not quite excel, but ggplot2 sure makes pretty charts! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1247 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:53:02 +0000 godzhesas 1247@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Flex/Flash based pivot table and charts - <a href="http://www.flexmonster.com" rel="nofollow">Flexmonster</a>. We recentely integrated it with our online pm tool, looks and works great! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1207 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:32:36 +0000 nathany 1207@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>and now for some reason, i'm reminded of M.C. escher :)</p> <p><img src="http://www.santarosa.edu/~mmcginni/myart/invention/superplexus/escher/RelativityESCHER-410px.jpg" /> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1206 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:40:31 +0000 Geoffree 1206@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>... and just to be fair and even handed :-) here's a 'cracker' from the fusioncharts.com gallery. The 'percentage of total hits' line appears on the front face of the bars but this would make January's percentage over 100% as the scale is on the back face. Hmmm. Can anyone read off values for each month?<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffree/3993967028/" title="awful fusionchart" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2619/3993967028_7abb87f442.jpg" width="500" height="250" alt="fusionchart" /></a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1205 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:13:12 +0000 Geoffree 1205@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Just taken a look at RichChart live. From their gallery, this is one to avoid. 3D effect, shiny surfaces and distracting background (to name a few poor effects) .... unless of course you want something for the company brochure to impress (ho, ho) rather than inform! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1203 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:52:14 +0000 nathany 1203@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Not exactly cut and paste, but the richCharts look a lot like fusioncharts: <a href="http://fusioncharts.com" rel="nofollow">http://fusioncharts.com</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1202 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:02:05 +0000 sharp_eyes 1202@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Maybe you can try the chart tamer from Microcharts to clean up your excel charts. Great product. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/online-charting-tools-excel-alternatives#post-1097 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:13:26 +0000 PrplHaz4 1097@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I'm sick of using awful excel charts in my presentations...Are there any services out there that let you just paste in some data and get decent looking charts out?</p> <p>Something along the lines of this:<br /> <a href="http://www.richchartlive.com/RichChartLive/" rel="nofollow">http://www.richchartlive.com/RichChartLive/</a> </p>