[Grok-dev] Graphs and Plots

[modiadi]

Hi,

I am doing a stok trader site and I also want to use graphs in the site.

At this point I am using a specialized view with a flash charting  
component inside.

I also need a simple solution for about 6 mini stock charts displayed  
on the entire site.
For this I made a couple of experiments with flot http://code.google.com/p/flot/ 
  (which may be the same as http://solutoire.com/flotr/docs/). My  
problem with this library is that it is drawing the charts directly in  
the browser. It loads from the server the chart data.
I am interested to replace it with something wich can produce an image  
file. It should be a server side solution without using a remote  
server like Google Chart. Probably in the next couple of weeks I will  
start working on it.
If you wish we can work on something together and after that share it  
with other grok users (if it will worth something ...)

Please let me know if you want to do that.

Anyway, I can show you what I did with flot, which is basically view  
based.  In this case the caching part is solved by the web server. The  
chart data is a simple file and with a clever configuration it can be  
cached.


Regards,

On 16 juin 09, at 15:56, Jeroen Michiel wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> For the project I'm working on, I need to draw lots of graphs and  
> plots of
> statistical data.
> I was thinking about matplotlib, but I don't find anything about it  
> combined
> with Zope3/Grok.
> Is there anything like that available somewhere?
>
> If not, I'll have to do it myself, but I'm not sure what would be  
> the best
> way to tackle this?
> * Easiest would be to make separate views for each chart that I pass  
> in the
> HTML img src attribute. However, that might incur extra overload, as  
> I might
> have to do the same calculations twice or more: once for the main  
> page and
> once for each graph or plot. I could try to cache the data somehow  
> (session
> data or memcached), but that might complicate things. You could  
> refer to a
> single graph by it's url, however, without ever needing the main  
> HTML page.
>
> * Another approach would be like the Google Chart API, that the  
> graph data
> is encoded in the url, and that I have one generic view that can  
> render any
> chart by changing the url GET params.
> That, however, would force one to go to the main html page to get  
> the right
> GET params to go with the graphs.
>
> What would you guys suggest?
> I personally think the view per chart with memcached as a possible  
> later
> optimization would be best, but I'd like a 'second opinion' on this  
> one.
>
> Thanks!
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