thenicholasnick / gochart

A chart plotting tool implemented by Golang and Highcharts.

gochart

中文说明

gochart is a chart ploting tool which is simple to use. It used the open sources golang and highcharts which is modeled after goplot. It can plot spline/line/area/bar/column/pie. This tool is just a binary independent with any other lib or environment.

Dependent

• https://github.com/zieckey/goini
• https://github.com/bitly/go-simplejson

Install from resource

• Install go
• Execute the command : go get -u github.com/zieckey/gochart

Usage

• Download the binary tar.gz file and untar it. Enter the gochart directory, you can see an executable file gochart and some *.chart files. This chart files are the example data files. Execute the exe gochart, then you can open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000, and now you can see the charts.
• You can put gochart to your PATH environment and execute gochart in the directory which holds *.chart files. If you have several *.chart files, you can refresh the web page to plot diffrent chart.

Example 1 : Spline data format

This data format can be also used to plot line/bar/column/area when you can change the value of ChartType. The option value of ChartType is below :

• spline
• line
• bar
• column
• area

# The chart type , option : spline/line/bar/column/area
ChartType = spline
Title = Source: WorldClimate.com
SubTitle = Monthly Average Temperature
ValueSuffix = °C

# The height (px) of the chart
Height = 400

# The x Axis numbers. The count this numbers MUST be the same with the data series
XAxisNumbers = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

# The y Axis text
YAxisText = Temperature (°C)

# The data and the name of the lines
Data|Tokyo = 7.0, 6.9, 9.5, 14.5, 18.2, 21.5, 25.2, 26.5, 23.3, 18.3, 13.9, 9.6
Data|New York = -0.2, 0.8, 5.7, 11.3, 17.0, 22.0, 24.8, 24.1, 20.1, 14.1, 8.6, 2.5
Data|Berlin = -0.9, 0.6, 3.5, 8.4, 13.5, 17.0, 18.6, 17.9, 14.3, 9.0, 3.9, 1.0
Data|London = 3.9, 4.2, 5.7, 8.5, 11.9, 15.2, 17.0, 16.6, 14.2, 10.3, 6.6, 4.8

Example 1 : Pie chart

ChartType  = pie
Title 	   = Browser market shares at a specific website, 2014
SubTitle   = from website.com
SeriesName = Browser shares

# The data and the name of the pieces of the pie 
Data|Firefox = 45.0
Data|IE 	 = 26.8
Data|Chrome  = 12.8
Data|Safari  = 8.5
Data|Opera   = 6.2
Data|Others  = 0.7    

Spline

Pie

Column

###　Area

Line

Bar