Item: Highcharts
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Highcharts

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It was used in the data visualization portion of a sentiment analysis project for a government agency. Our research lab was contracted to conduct sentiment analysis on a recent government announcement, by collecting online citizen data on social media and public forums. After analyzing the data, I made used of Highcharts to develop the necessary charts (pie, bar, drill-down, etc) to help visualize the findings.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy ingestion of APIs and JSON.
Clean, easy to view charts.
Little dependencies.

Cons

Customizability is more restricted as compared to D3.js
More tweaks required to make it responsive.
Drill-down functions are more complicated to develop.

Alternatives Considered

D3.js and Tableau Online

Highcharts makes the ingestion of APIs and JSON very seamless. This helps a lot when you have a complex backend service and simply want to visualize data based on emitted events. Highcharts is useful in this regard because of how it can scale and handle different data that is piped over APIs.

Other Software Used

MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database 12c

Likelihood to Recommend

It is excellent when you are wanting to create clean, straight to the point, data visualizations. Pie charts, bar graphs, and the appropriate drill-downs are easy to develop and deploy. This helps a lot when needing to develop a data visualization solution for non-technical teams. However, the lack of customizability makes it difficult to create specialized visualizations.

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