CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2015 E1522 Visualization

Expertiza - Visualization

Project Description

In this project, the data in Expertiza would be presented in a more convenient and instinct way.

Overview of Approach

There are quite a few gems available to visualize data in Ruby on Rails, like Goolgecharts <ref>http://googlecharts.rubyforge.org/</ref> and GoogleVisualr <ref>http://googlevisualr.herokuapp.com/</ref>. These gems makes use of Google Visualization API and wrap it to let users write ruby codes to present nice charts in their web pages instead of using Javascript.

GoogleVisualr

GoogleVisualr is a a wrapper around the Google Chart Tools<ref>https://developers.google.com/chart/</ref> which allows users to create beautiful charts with just Ruby, instead of writing JavaScript if using the Google Chart Tools directly.

GoogleCharts

Googlecharts is a ruby gem implements a wrapper for Google Chart API. It is fully tested using RSpec.

Usage

Installing

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gem install googlecharts

Example in Ruby on Rails

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Controller:

@line_chart = Gchart.line(:data => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

View:

 <%= image_tag(@line_chart) %>

Basic Usages

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require ‘gchart’

Gchart.line(:size => ‘200*200’,
:title => “title”,
:bg => ‘efefef’,
:legend => 
:data => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

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Reference

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