Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Drawing Shapes in Canvas; Introduction; Graphics with 2D canvas; Starting from basic shapes; Layering rectangles to create the flag of Greece; Creating shapes using paths; Creating complex shapes; Adding more vertices; Overlapping shapes to create other shapes; Chapter 2: Advanced Drawing in Canvas; Introduction; Drawing arcs; Drawing curves with a control point; Creating a Bezier curve; Integrating images into our art; Drawing with text; Understanding pixel manipulation.

Chapter 3: Creating Cartesian-based GraphsIntroduction; Building a bar chart from scratch; Spreading data in a scatter chart; Building line charts; Creating the flying brick chart (waterfall chart); Building a candlestick chart (stock chart); Chapter 4: Let's Curve Things Up; Introduction; Building a bubble chart; Creating a pie chart; Using a doughnut chart to show relationships; Leveraging a radar; Structuring a tree chart; Chapter 5: Getting Out of the Box; Introduction; Going through a funnel (a pyramid chart); Revisiting lines: making the line chart interactive.

Tree mapping and recursivenessAdding user interaction into tree mapping; Making an interactive click meter; Chapter 6: Bringing Static Things to Life; Introduction; Stacking graphical layers; Moving to an OOP perspective; Animating independent layers; Adding an interactive legend; Creating a context-aware legend; Chapter 7: Depending on the Open Source Sphere; Introduction; Animating a gauge meter (jqPlot); Creating an animated 3D chart (canvas3DGraph); Charting over time (flotJS); Building a clock with RaphaelJS; Making a sunburst chart with InfoVis; Chapter 8: Playing with Google Charts.

IntroductionGetting started with a pie chart; Creating charts using the ChartWrapper; Changing data source to Google Spreadsheet; Customizing the chart properties with an options object; Adding a dashboard to charts; Chapter 9: Using Google Maps; Introduction; Creating a geographic chart with Google Visualization API; Obtaining a Google API key; Building a Google map; Adding markers and events; Customizing controls and overlapping maps; Redesigning maps using styles; Chapter 10: Maps in Action; Introduction; Connecting a Twitter feed to a Google map; Building an advanced interactive marker.

Adding multiple tweets into an InfoWindow bubbleCustomizing the look and feel of markers; Final project: building a live itinerary; Index.