What is the future of Charts in CiviReport?

[Owen]

Always interested in charts and data, the new reports will be a great addition for a fundraising org like us.

If it's a trend over time that is being charted (lapsed/recovered) and the time periods are successive then a line chart might be more appropriate. It's easier for people to comprehend the trends with line or column if time periods aren't successive.

Pie charts should generally be avoided for comparison :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart

[Eileen]

The underlying data is more flexible than the spec.  They are on my github account now (although you need the 'reportbase' extension as well). I expect at some point PTP will do an announcement.

[CiviTeacher.com]

Related to the library, in 4.3 the x-axis of the report is not labeled with anything but "month".  Which month?

While I lack the time or expertise to make this coding contribution, I am open to sponsorship.  Please be in touch if you need.

[xavier]

Hey,

I think we need to separate the presentation vs raw data. A wee while ago, someone started a stat api (or was it just a discussion?). Might be something to look into again, so it's easier to change the layer presentation and do different graphs.

X+

[Eileen]

Great - cos as I understand it very soon you are going to be sitting around in England with nothing better to do than drink warm beer & sort out a nice new charting layer for us

[xavier]

Hi,

I could easily imagine quite a long list of things to do that would sound better than to drink warm beer...
We should schedule a hangout with you/PTP to see if we come up with an idea of a solution?

[Eileen]

You, me, PTP, warm beer & only a globe between us

[xavier]

To update where I am on that topic:

There is an awesome library built on the top of d3 and crossfilter that I have packaged to be used within civi:

https://github.com/TechToThePeople/civisualize

Something that I'm convinced is that multi-dimensional dataviz is the way to go and dc is amazing for that.

I'm not super convinced right now how to mix civireport and cividatavisualize, Eileen has built a first block (export the data from civireport to be used for the dataviz), we might want to do it the other way around too to bring the graphs back into the report.



 

[JohnFF]

I can't wait for this!