AnyChart is a

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for

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in the form of

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charts and

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. It was initially available as a

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chart component and integrated as such by

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History

AnyChart was first developed in 2003 as a Flash chart component to visualize

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data. In 2007, Oracle licensed AnyChart to implement Flash charting in

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(APEX) used by 100,000 developers monthly as of March 2007. With the APEX 4.2 release in 2012, AnyChart 6 was introduced with the support of

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charts based on

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rendering in addition to Flash charts. Version 7.x of AnyChart was already completely based on

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and HTML5. AnyChart 8.x first released in 2017 has a

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system and supports more than 90 chart types, including variations of basic charts,

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and environmental data graphs (such as air temperature and precipitation, depth measures ), and maps, along with

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drawing and diverse options to work with data. In 2019, it also became available as visualization extensions for Qlik Sense.

License

AnyChart is free for non-profit use and requires a paid

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for use in

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. Its

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since release 7.13.0. The library's

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engine is available under the free

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; it was tweaked from AnyChart and open-sourced as a separate JavaScript

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under the name of GraphicsJS in 2016.

Awards

AnyChart has industry awards. In 2016,

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named it one of the most interesting big data and analytics APIs, and the CIOReview magazine included it in the top 20 data visualization tools. In 2018, AnyChart won a DEVIES award at DeveloperWeek in California for the Best Innovation in JavaScript Technology.

References

External links

* {{official website, https://www.anychart.com JavaScript libraries JavaScript visualization toolkits Proprietary software Visualization API Charts Data visualization software JavaScript Proprietary cross-platform software Infographics