1) What is Highcharts?
Highcharts is a JavaScript based charting library.
It is used to enhance web applications by adding interactive charting capability.
Highcharts supports a wide range of charts.
Charts are drawn using SVG in standard browsers.
2) What are the features of Highcharts?
Features of Highcharts are:
- Export
- Dynamic
- Zoomablity
- Free to Use
- Lightweight
- External data
- Text Rotation
- Multiple axes
- DateTime support
- Multitouch Support
- Simple Configurations
- Configurable tooltips
3) What are Line Chart?
Line Chart is used to draw line or spline based charts.
Types of Line Chart:
- Basic line
- With data labels
- Ajax loaded data, clickable points
- Time series, zoomable
- Spline with inverted axes
- Spline with symbols
- Spline with plot bands
- Time data with irregular intervals
- Logarithmic axis
4) What is Angular Gauge?
Angular Gauge is used to draw speedometer/gauge type charts.
Types of Angular Gauge:
- Angular Gauge
- Solid Gauge
- Clock
- VU Meter
- Gauge with dual axes
5) What is Area Charts?
Area Chart is used to draw area wise charts.
Types of Area Chart:
- Basic Area
- Area with negative values
- Stacked area
- Percentage area
- Area with missing points
- Inverted axes
- Area-spline
- Area range
- Area range and line
6) What are Pie Charts?
Pie Chart is used to draw pie based charts.
Types of Pie Chart:
- Basic Pie
- Pie with Legends
- Donut Chart
- Semi circle Donut
- Pie with drill down
- Pie chart with gradient
- Pie chart with monochrome
7) What is Scatter Chart?
Scatter Chart is used to draw scattered charts.
Types of Scatter Chart:
8) What is Bubble Chart?
Bubble Chart is used to draw bubble based charts.
Types of Bubble Chart:
- Bubbles Chart
- 3D Bubbles Chart
9) What is Dynamic Chart?
Dynamic Chart is used to draw dynamic charts/data based charts where user can modify charts.
Types of Dynamic Chart:
- Spline updating each second
- Click to add a point
10) What is 3D Chart?
3D Chart is used to draw 3-dimensional charts.
Types of 3D Chart:
- 3D Column
- 3D Column with null
- 3D Column with stacking
- 3D Pie
- 3D Donut
11) What is Heat Map?
Heat Map is used to draw heat map type charts.
Types of Heat Map:
12) What is Tree Map?
WebGL supported following drawing modes that are listed in table:
Tree Map is used to draw tree map type charts.
Types of Tree Map:
- Tree Map
- Tree Map with Levels
- Large Tree Map
13) What is Combination Chart?
Combination Chart is used to draw mixed charts (bar chart with pie chart).
Types of Combination Chart:
- Column, Line and Pie
- Dual Axes, Line and Column
- Multiple Axes
- Scatter with regression line
14) Define Irregular Time Data?
First define an X value (date) for each point which adds data points with irregular intervals.
15) Does High chart run on client side or server side?
It runs on client side only irrespective of your server such as PHP, Perl, ASP, ASP.NET, Node.js etc. It is directly loaded from your system.
