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  93       <h1>dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library</h1>
  94
  95       <p><a href="http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs">http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs</a></p>
  96       <p>See <a href="http://blog.dygraphs.com/">blog</a>, <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/dygraphs-users">mailing list</a>, <a href="http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs/downloads/">downloads</a>, <a href="tests/">demos</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dygraphs/issues/">open issues</a></p>
  97
  98       <p>dygraphs is an open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.</p>
  99
 100       <h3 id="demo">A demo is worth a thousand words:</h3>
 101
 102       <p style="font-size:0.8em">(Mouse over to highlight individual values. Click and drag to zoom. Double-click to zoom back out. Change the number and hit enter to adjust the averaging period.)</p>
 103
 104       <div id="demodiv" style="width:800px; height:320px;"></div>
 105       <script type="text/javascript">
 106         g = new Dygraph(
 107           document.getElementById("demodiv"),
 108           "ny-vs-sf.txt",
 109           {
 110             rollPeriod: 14,
 111             showRoller: true,
 112             customBars: true,
 113             title: 'Daily Temperatures in New York vs. San Francisco',
 114             ylabel: 'Temperature (F)',
 115             legend: 'always',
 116             labelsDivStyles: { 'textAlign': 'right' }
 117           }
 118         );
 119       </script>
 120
 121       <h4>Some things to notice:</h4>
 122       <ul>
 123         <li>There's less seasonal temperature variation in SF than in NY.</li>
 124         <li>The difference is about 15&deg; F for SF vs. 50&deg; F for NY.</li>
 125         <li>The daily data (set rolling period to 1) is quite noisy and hides this conclusion.</li>
 126         <li>Using a 14-day moving average makes it clearer. A 100-day rolling period averages out nearly all the specifics from the data.</li>
 127         <li>There's a gap in the data for SF, when the weather station was down (zoom into October 2007 to see it).</li>
 128         <li>The bands around each point indicate average highs and lows.</li>
 129         <li>There is a <em>lot</em> of data in this chart: low, average and high for each city on each day of a three year period &asymp; 6000 data points in all.</li>
 130       </ul>
 131
 132       <p>dygraphs allows the user to explore the data and discover these facts.</p>
 133
 134       <p>For more demos, browse the dygraph <a href="tests/">tests</a>
 135       directory. To see other people who are using dygraphs, check out the <a
 136       href="#users">known users</a>.</p>
 137
 138       <h3>Features</h3>
 139       <p>Some of the features of dygraphs:</p>
 140       <ul>
 141         <li>Plots time series without using an external server or Flash</li>
 142         <li>Works in Internet Explorer (using excanvas)</li>
 143         <li>Lightweight (69kb) and responsive</li>
 144         <li>Displays values on mouseover, making interaction easily discoverable</li>
 145         <li>Supports error bands around data series</li>
 146         <li>Interactive zoom</li>
 147         <li>Displays Annotations on the chart</li>
 148         <li>Adjustable averaging period</li>
 149         <li>Can intelligently chart fractions</li>
 150         <li>Customizable click-through actions</li>
 151         <li>Compatible with the Google Visualization API</li>
 152         <li>Intelligent defaults make it easy to use</li>
 153       </ul>
 154
 155       <h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>
 156
 157       <p>To use dygraphs, include the <code><a href="http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs/downloads/">dygraph-combined.js</a></code> JavaScript file and instantiate a <code>Dygraph</code> object.</p>
 158
 159       <p>Here's a basic example to get things started:</p>
 160
 161       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 162         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 163           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 164           <code>
 165   <pre>
 166 &lt;html&gt;
 167 &lt;head&gt;
 168 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 169   src=&quot;dygraph-combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 170 &lt;/head&gt;
 171 &lt;body&gt;
 172 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 173 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 174   g = new Dygraph(
 175
 176     // containing div
 177     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv&quot;),
 178
 179     // CSV or path to a CSV file.
 180     &quot;Date,Temperature\n&quot; +
 181     &quot;2008-05-07,75\n&quot; +
 182     &quot;2008-05-08,70\n&quot; +
 183     &quot;2008-05-09,80\n&quot;
 184
 185   );
 186 &lt;/script&gt;
 187 &lt;/body&gt;
 188 &lt;/html&gt;
 189 </pre>
 190           </code>
 191         </div>
 192         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 193           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 194           <div id="graphdiv"></div>
 195           <script type="text/javascript">
 196             g = new Dygraph(
 197
 198               // containing div
 199               document.getElementById("graphdiv"),
 200
 201               // CSV or path to a CSV file.
 202               "Date,Temperature\n" +
 203               "2008-05-07,75\n" +
 204               "2008-05-08,70\n" +
 205               "2008-05-09,80\n"
 206             );
 207           </script>
 208         </div>
 209       </div>
 210
 211       <p style="clear:both">In order to keep this example self-contained, the second parameter is raw CSV data. The dygraphs library parses this data (including column headers), resizes its container to a reasonable default, calculates appropriate axis ranges and tick marks and draws the graph.</p>
 212
 213       <p>In most applications, it makes more sense to include a CSV file instead. If the second parameter to the constructor doesn't contain a newline, it will be interpreted as the path to a CSV file. The Dygraph will perform an XMLHttpRequest to retrieve this file and display the data when it becomes available. Make sure your CSV file is readable and serving from a place that understands XMLHttpRequest's! In particular, you cannot specify a CSV file using <code>"file:///"</code>. Here's an example: (data from <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KNUQ/2007/1/1/CustomHistory.html?dayend=31&amp;monthend=12&amp;yearend=2007&amp;req_city=NA&amp;req_state=NA&amp;req_statename=NA">Weather Underground</a>)</p>
 214
 215       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 216         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 217           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 218           <code>
 219 <pre>
 220 &lt;html&gt;
 221 &lt;head&gt;
 222 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 223   src=&quot;dygraph-combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 224 &lt;/head&gt;
 225 &lt;body&gt;
 226 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv2&quot;
 227   style=&quot;width:500px; height:300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 228 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 229   g2 = new Dygraph(
 230     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv2&quot;),
 231     &quot;temperatures.csv&quot;, // path to CSV file
 232     {}          // options
 233   );
 234 &lt;/script&gt;
 235 &lt;/body&gt;
 236 &lt;/html&gt;
 237 </pre>
 238           </code>
 239         </div>
 240         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 241           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 242           <div id="graphdiv2" style="width:500px; height:300px;"></div>
 243           <script type="text/javascript">
 244             g2 = new Dygraph(
 245               document.getElementById("graphdiv2"),
 246               "temperatures.csv",
 247               {}
 248             );
 249           </script>
 250         </div>
 251       </div>
 252
 253       <p style="clear:both;">The file used is <code><a href="temperatures.csv">temperatures.csv</a></code>.</p>
 254
 255       <p>There are a few things to note here:</p>
 256
 257       <ul>
 258         <li>The Dygraph sent off an XHR to get the temperatures.csv file.</li>
 259         <li>The labels were taken from the first line of <code>temperatures.csv</code>, which is <code>Date,High,Low</code>.</li>
 260         <li>The Dygraph automatically chose two different, easily-distinguishable colors for the two data series.</li>
 261         <li>The labels on the x-axis have switched from days to months. If you zoom in, they'll switch to weeks and then days.</li>
 262         <li>Some heuristics are used to determine a good vertical range for the data. The idea is to make all the data visible and have human-friendly values on the axis (i.e. 200 instead of 193.4). Generally this works well.</li>
 263         <li>The data is very spiky. A moving average would be easier to interpret.</li>
 264       </ul>
 265
 266       <p>This problem can be fixed by specifying the appropriate options in the "additional options" parameter to the Dygraph constructor. To set the number of days for a moving average, use the <code>rollPeriod</code> option. Here's how it's done:</p>
 267
 268       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 269         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 270           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 271           <code>
 272 <pre>
 273 &lt;html&gt;
 274 &lt;head&gt;
 275 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 276   src=&quot;dygraph-combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 277 &lt;/head&gt;
 278 &lt;body&gt;
 279 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv3&quot;
 280   style=&quot;width:500px; height:300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 281 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 282   g3 = new Dygraph(
 283     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv3&quot;),
 284     &quot;temperatures.csv&quot;,
 285     {
 286       rollPeriod: 7,
 287       showRoller: true
 288     }
 289   );
 290 &lt;/script&gt;
 291 &lt;/body&gt;
 292 &lt;/html&gt;
 293 </pre>
 294           </code>
 295         </div>
 296         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 297           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 298           <div id="graphdiv3" style="width:500px; height:300px;"></div>
 299           <script type="text/javascript">
 300             g3 = new Dygraph(
 301               document.getElementById("graphdiv3"),
 302               "temperatures.csv",
 303               {
 304                 rollPeriod: 7,
 305                 showRoller: true
 306               }
 307             );
 308           </script>
 309         </div>
 310       </div>
 311
 312       <p style="clear:both;">A rolling average can be set using the text box in the lower left-hand corner of the graph (the showRoller attribute is what makes this appear). Also note that we've explicitly set the size of the chart div.</p>
 313
 314       <h2>Error Bars</h2>
 315
 316       <p>Another significant feature of the dygraphs library is the ability to display error bars around data series. One standard deviation must be specified for each data point. A <em>&plusmn;n</em> sigma band will be drawn around the data series at that point. If a moving average is being displayed, dygraphs will compute the standard deviation of the average at each point. I.E. <em>&sigma; = sqrt( (&sigma;<sub>1<sup>2</sup></sub> + &sigma;<sub>2<sup>2</sup></sub> + ... + &sigma;<sub>n<sup>2</sup></sub>) / n )</em></p>
 317
 318       <p>Here's a demonstration. There are two data series. One is <code>N(100,10)</code> with a standard deviation of 10 specified at each point. The other is <code>N(80,20)</code> with a standard deviation of 20 specified at each point. The CSV file was generated using Octave and can be viewed at <a href="twonormals.csv">twonormals.csv</a>.</p>
 319
 320       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 321         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 322           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 323           <code>
 324 <pre>
 325 &lt;html&gt;
 326 &lt;head&gt;
 327 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 328   src=&quot;combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 329 &lt;/head&gt;
 330 &lt;body&gt;
 331 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv4&quot;
 332   style=&quot;width:480px; height:320px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 333 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 334   g4 = new Dygraph(
 335     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv4&quot;),
 336     &quot;twonormals.csv&quot;,
 337     {
 338       rollPeriod: 7,
 339       showRoller: true,
 340       errorBars: true,
 341       valueRange: [50,125]
 342     }
 343   );
 344 &lt;/script&gt;
 345 &lt;/body&gt;
 346 &lt;/html&gt;
 347 </pre>
 348           </code>
 349         </div>
 350         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 351           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 352           <div id="graphdiv4" style="width:480px; height:320px;"></div>
 353           <script type="text/javascript">
 354             g4 = new Dygraph(
 355               document.getElementById("graphdiv4"),
 356               "twonormals.csv",
 357               {
 358                 rollPeriod: 7,
 359                 showRoller: true,
 360                 errorBars: true,
 361                 valueRange: [50,125]
 362               }
 363             );
 364           </script>
 365         </div>
 366       </div>
 367
 368       <p style="clear:both;">Things to note here:</p>
 369
 370       <ul>
 371         <li>The <strong>errorBars</strong> option affects both the interpretation of the CSV file and the display of the graph. When <strong>errorBars</strong> is set to true, each line is interpreted as <em>YYYYMMDD</em>, <em>A</em>, <em>sigma_A</em>, <em>B</em>, <em>sigma_B</em>, &hellip;</li>
 372         <li>The first line of the CSV file doesn't mention the error columns. In this case, it's just "Date,Series1,Series2".</li>
 373         <li>The averaging visibly affects the error bars. This is most clear if you crank up the rolling period to something like 100 days. For the earliest dates, there won't be 100 data points to average so the signal will be noisier. The error bars get smaller like sqrt(N) going forward in time until there's a full 100 points to average.</li>
 374         <li>The error bars are partially transparent. This can be seen when they overlap one another.</li>
 375       </ul>
 376
 377       <h2 id="ie">Internet Explorer Compatibility</h2>
 378
 379       <p>The dygraphs library relies heavily on the HTML5 <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> tag, which Microsoft Internet Explorer did not traditionally support. To use Microsoft's native canvas implementation in IE9, you need to set an HTML5 doctype on your page:</p>
 380
 381 <pre>
 382 &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
 383 </pre>
 384
 385       <p>When IE9 is in HTML5 mode, dygraphs works just like in other modern browsers.</p>
 386
 387       <p>If you want to support previous versions of Internet Explorer (IE6&ndash;IE8), you'll need to include the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/">excanvas</a> library, which emulates the <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> tag using VML. You can add excanvas by including the following snippet:</p>
 388
 389 <pre>
 390 &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
 391 &lt;html&gt;
 392   &lt;head&gt;
 393     &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7; IE=EmulateIE9"&gt;
 394     &lt;!--[if IE]&gt;&lt;script src="path/to/excanvas.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;
 395   &lt;/head&gt;
 396 </pre>
 397
 398 <p>(This is surprisingly tricky because the HTML5 doctype breaks excanvas in IE8. See <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/dygraphs-users/browse_thread/thread/c60709e04bc7fe5f#">this discussion</a> for details.)</p>
 399
 400     <p>While VML emulation sounds like it would be slow, it works well in practice for most charts.</p>
 401
 402     <p>One common gotcha to look out for: make sure you don't have any trailing commas in parameter lists, e.g.</p>
 403
 404 <pre>
 405 new Dygraph(el, data, {
 406   showRoller: true,  // note trailing comma
 407 })</pre>
 408
 409     <p>Most browsers will ignore the trailing comma, but it will break under IE.</p>
 410
 411     <h2 id="gviz">GViz Data</h2>
 412
 413     <p>The <a
 414       href="http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/index.html">Google
 415       Visualization API</a> provides a standard interface for describing data.
 416     Once you've specified your data using this API, you can plug in any
 417     GViz-compatible visualization. dygraphs is such a visualization. In
 418     particular, it can be used as a drop-in replacement for the
 419     AnnotatedTimeline visualization used on Google Finance and other sites. To
 420     see how this works, check out the <a href="tests/annotation-gviz.html">gviz
 421       annotation demo.</a></p>
 422
 423     <p>For a simple demonstration of how to use dygraphs a GViz visualization, see <a href="http://danvk.org/dygraphs/tests/gviz.html">http://danvk.org/dygraphs/tests/gviz.html</a>. dygraphs can also be used as a GViz gadget. This allows it to be embedded inside of a Google Spreadsheet. For a demonstration of this, see <a   href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Anx1yCqeL8YUdDR1c3pPREhraGhkWmdhaURjOXRncXc&amp;hl=en">this spreadsheet</a>. The URL for the gadget is <code><a href="http://danvk.org/dygraphs/gadget.xml">http://danvk.org/dygraphs/gadget.xml</a></code>.</p>
 424
 425     <p>Here's an example of a published gviz gadget using dygraphs:</p>
 426
 427     <script src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/gpub?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkb8jbn8l90ocl9n4b14jrcvp61ceqis5.spreadsheets.gmodules.com%2Fgadgets%2Fifr%3Fup__table_query_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fspreadsheets.google.com%252Ftq%253Frange%253DA1%25253AC31%2526headers%253D-1%2526key%253D0Anx1yCqeL8YUdDR1c3pPREhraGhkWmdhaURjOXRncXc%2526gid%253D0%2526pub%253D1%26up__table_query_refresh_interval%3D300%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdanvk.org%252Fdygraphs%252Fgadget.xml%253Fnocache&height=215&width=530"></script>
 428
 429     <h2 id="baseball">Charting Fractions</h2>
 430
 431     <p>Situations often arise where you want to plot fractions, e.g. the fraction of respondents in a poll who said they'd vote for candidate X or the number of hits divided by at bats (baseball's batting average). Fractions require special treatment for two main reasons:</p>
 432
 433     <ul>
 434       <li>The average of <code>a1/b1</code> and <code>a2/b2</code> is <code>(a1+a2)/(b1+b2)</code>, not <code>(a1/b1 + a2/b2)/2</code>.</li>
 435       <li>The normal approximation is not always applicable and more sophisticated confidence intervals (e.g. the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_interval">Wilson confidence interval</a>) must be employed to avoid ratios that exceed 100% or go below 0%.</li>
 436     </ul>
 437
 438     <p>Fortunately, dygraphs handles both of these for you! Here's a chart and the command that generated it:</p>
 439
 440     <div style="width:750px; text-align:center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 125%;">Batting Average for Ichiro Suzuki vs. Mariners (2004)</div>
 441     <div id="baseballdiv" style="width:750px; height:300px;"></div>
 442     <script type="text/javascript">
 443       new Dygraph(
 444         document.getElementById("baseballdiv"),
 445         "suzuki-mariners.txt",
 446         {
 447           fractions: true,
 448           errorBars: true,
 449           showRoller: true,
 450           rollPeriod: 15
 451         }
 452       );
 453     </script>
 454
 455     <p>Command:</p>
 456 <pre>
 457   new Dygraph(
 458     document.getElementById(&quot;baseballdiv&quot;),
 459     &quot;suzuki-mariners.txt&quot;,
 460     {
 461       fractions: true,
 462       errorBars: true,
 463       showRoller: true,
 464       rollPeriod: 15
 465     }
 466   );
 467 </pre>
 468
 469     <p>The <code>fractions</code> option indicates that the values in each column should be parsed as fractions (e.g. "1/2" instead of "0.5"). The <code>errorBars</code> option indicates that we'd like to see a confidence interval around each data point. By default, when <code>fractions</code> is set, you get a Wilson confidence interval. If you look carefully at the chart, you can see that the error bars are asymmetric.</p>
 470
 471     <p>A couple things to notice about this chart:</p>
 472
 473     <ul>
 474       <li>The error bars for Ichiro's batting average are larger than for the Mariners', since he has far fewer at bats than his team.</li>
 475       <li>dygraphs makes it easy to see "batting average over the last 30 games". This is ordinarily quite difficult to compute. It makes it clear where the "hot" and "cold" part of Suzuki's season were.</li>
 476       <li>If you set the averaging period to something large, like 200, you'll see the team's and player's batting average through that game. The final number is the overall batting average for the season.</li>
 477       <li>Where the error bars do not overlap, we can say with 95% confidence that the series differ. There is a better than 95% chance that Ichiro was a better hitter than his team as a whole in 2004, the year he won the batting title.</li>
 478     </ul>
 479
 480     <h2 id="stock">One last demo</h2>
 481
 482     <p>This chart shows monthly closes of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, both in nominal and real (i.e. adjusted for inflation) dollars. The shaded areas show its monthly high and low. CPI values with a base from 1982-84 are used to adjust for inflation.</p>
 483
 484     <div id="dow_chart" style="width:750px; height:350px;"></div>
 485     <p><b>Display: </b>
 486     <input type=checkbox id=0 onClick="stockchange(this)" checked>
 487     <label for="0"> Nominal</label>
 488     <input type=checkbox id=1 onClick="stockchange(this)" checked>
 489     <label for="1"> Real</label>
 490     <input type=checkbox id=ann onClick="annotationschange(this)" checked>
 491     <label for="ann"> Annotations</label>
 492     </p>
 493
 494     <script type="text/javascript">
 495       var stock_annotations = [
 496         {
 497           series: "Real",
 498           x: "1929-08-15",
 499           shortText: "A",
 500           text: "1929 Stock Market Peak"
 501         },
 502         {
 503           series: "Nominal",
 504           x: "1987-08-15",
 505           shortText: "B",
 506           text: "1987 Crash"
 507         },
 508         {
 509           series: "Nominal",
 510           x: "1999-12-15",
 511           shortText: "C",
 512           text: "1999 (.com) Peak"
 513         },
 514         {
 515           series: "Nominal",
 516           x: "2007-10-15",
 517           shortText: "D",
 518           text: "All-Time Market Peak"
 519         }
 520       ];
 521
 522     // From http://www.econstats.com/eqty/eq_d_mi_3.csv
 523       stockchart = new Dygraph(
 524         document.getElementById('dow_chart'),
 525         "dow.txt",
 526         {
 527           showRoller: true,
 528           customBars: true,
 529           labelsKMB: true,
 530           drawCallback: function(g, is_initial) {
 531             if (!is_initial) return;
 532             g.setAnnotations( stock_annotations );
 533           }
 534         }
 535       );
 536
 537       function stockchange(el) {
 538         stockchart.setVisibility(el.id, el.checked);
 539       }
 540
 541       function annotationschange(el) {
 542         if (el.checked) {
 543           stockchart.setAnnotations(stock_annotations);
 544         } else {
 545           stockchart.setAnnotations([]);
 546         }
 547       }
 548     </script>
 549 <!--
 550
 551 Here is a script to regenerate the Dow Jones plot:
 552
 553 # Get unadjusted DJIA data in a nice format:
 554 curl -O http://www.econstats.com/eqty/eq_d_mi_3.csv
 555 sed '1,17d' eq_d_mi_3.csv | cut -d, -f1,6 | perl -pe 's/(\d{4}-\d\d)-\d\d/$1/g' | perl -pe 's/, */\t/' | grep -v 'na' | perl -ne 'chomp; ($m,$v) = split/\t/; $close{$m} = $v; if ($low{$m} == 0 || $v < $low{$m}) { $low{$m}=$v } if ($v > $high{$m}) { $high{$m} = $v } END { for $x(sort keys %close) { print "$x\t$low{$x}\t$close{$x}\t$high{$x}\n" } } ' > monthly-djia.tsv
 556
 557 # Fetch and format the CPI data:
 558 curl 'http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=CUUR0000SA0&years_option=all_years&periods_option=all_periods&output_type=column&output_format=text&delimiter=comma' > cpi-u.txt
 559 sed '1,/Series Id,Year,/d' cpi-u.txt | sed '/^$/,$d' | cut -d, -f2,3,4 | perl -ne 'print if /,M(0[0-9]|1[012]),/' | perl -pe 's/(\d{4}),M(\d{2}),/$1-$2\t/g' > cpi-u.tsv
 560
 561 # Merge:
 562 join -t'     ' cpi-u.tsv monthly-djia.tsv > annotated-djia.tsv
 563 perl -ne 'BEGIN{print "Month,Nominal,Real\n"} chomp; ($m,$cpi,$low,$close,$high) = split /\t/; $cpi /= 100.0; print "$m-15,$low;$close;$high,",($low/$cpi),";",($close/$cpi),";",($high/$cpi),"\n"' annotated-djia.tsv > dow.txt
 564
 565 -->
 566
 567     <h2 id="options">Other Options</h2>
 568
 569     <p>In addition to the options mentioned above (<code>showRoller</code>, <code>rollPeriod</code>, <code>errorBars</code>, <code>valueRange</code>), there are <i>many</i> others.</p>
 570
 571     <p>For a full list, see the <a href="options.html">Dygraphs Options Reference</a> page.</p>
 572
 573     <h2>Common Gotchas</h2>
 574
 575     <p>Here are a few problems that I've frequently run into while using the dygraphs library.</p>
 576
 577     <ul>
 578       <li>If your chart doesn't display, be sure to check your browser's JavaScript error console. dygraphs makes every attempt to log errors and warnings, and these can often guide you in the right direction.</li>
 579       <li>Make sure your CSV files are readable! If your graph isn't showing up, the XMLHttpRequest for the CSV file may be failing. You can determine whether this is the case using tools like <a href="http://www.getfirebug.com/">Firebug</a>.</li>
 580       <li>Make sure your CSV files are in the correct format. They must be of the form <code>YYYYMMDD, series1, series2, </code>&hellip; . And if you set the <code>errorBars</code> property, make sure you alternate data series and standard deviations.</li>
 581       <li>dygraphs are not happy when placed inside a <code>&lt;center&gt;</code> tag. This applies to the CSS <code>text-align</code> property as well. If you want to center a Dygraph, put it inside a table with <code>align = center</code> set.</li>
 582       <li>Don't set the <code>dateWindow</code> property to a date. It expects milliseconds since epoch, which can be obtained from a JavaScript Date object's valueOf method.</li>
 583       <li>Make sure you don't have any trailing commas in your call to the Dygraph constructor or in the options parameter. Firefox, Chrome and Safari ignore these but they can cause a graph to not display in Internet Explorer.</li>
 584     </ul>
 585
 586     <h2 id="gwt">GWT Compatibility</h2>
 587     <p>There is currently no GWT wrapper around Dygraphs, however there is a class that can be used to easily load Dygraphs into the browser.  To use it, include the generated dygraph-gwt.jar file in your classpath and add the following line to your GWT module:</p>
 588
 589 <pre>
 590 &lt;inherits name=&quot;org.danvk.dygraphs&quot;/&gt;
 591 </pre>
 592
 593     <p>Call org.danvk.Dygraphs.install() when your application starts to install the JavaScript code into the browser.  You can use <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsJSNI.html">JSNI</a> to call Dygraphs from your GWT code, as in the example below.  The example uses the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/wiki/VisualizationGettingStarted">Visualization API for GWT</a> and the <a href="#gviz">Dygraphs GViz API.</a></p>
 594
 595 <pre>
 596 public static native JavaScriptObject drawDygraph(
 597     Element element, DataTable dataTable, double minY, double maxY) /*-{
 598   var chart = new $wnd.Dygraph.GVizChart(element);
 599   chart.draw(dataTable,
 600     {
 601       valueRange: [minY, maxY]
 602     });
 603   return chart;
 604 }-*/;
 605 </pre>
 606
 607     <a name="users" />
 608     <h2>Known Users</h2>
 609     <p>Since its public release in late 2009, dygraphs has found many users
 610     across the web. This is a small collection of the uses that we know about.
 611     If you're using dygraphs, please send <a
 612     href="mailto:dan@dygraphs.com">Dan</a> a link and he'll add it to this
 613     list.</p>
 614
 615     <p>dygraphs was originally developed at Google and has found wide use on
 616     internal dashboards and servers there. There are also a few uses of
 617     dygraphs on public Google products:</p>
 618
 619     <ul class='padded-list'>
 620     <li><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:20xKcnNqHrk&t=weekly">Google Correlate</a><br/>
 621     <span class="desc">Uses dygraphs for time series visualization. Mostly a standard configuration, with just a few tweaks to match Google style.</span></li>
 622
 623     <li><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw?p=us">Google Correlate - Search by Drawing</a><br/>
 624     <span class="desc">This is a highly customized configuration which lets the user draw a time series. Based on <a href="tests/drawing.html">this demo</a>.</span></li>
 625
 626     <li><a href="https://www.google.com/latitude/b/0/history/manage">Google Latitude History Dashboard</a><br/>
 627     <span class="desc">Uses mouse interaction callbacks to synchronize time series points with markers on a Google Map.</span></li>
 628     </ul>
 629
 630     <p>dygraphs has also found use in other organizations:</p>
 631
 632     <ul class='padded-list'>
 633   <li><a
 634     href="http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/index.jsp?i_1=388&l_1=99&t_1=316&w_1=800&h_1=400&s_1=0!3!0!ACE.B_x!ACE.B_y!ACE.B_z!">Integrated
 635     Space Weather Analysis System</a> (NASA)<br/>
 636   <span class="desc">&ldquo;We use [dygraphs] in the Integrated Space Weather
 637     Analysis System available from the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA Goddard
 638     Space Flight Center. It works quite well for time series data from various
 639     missions and simulations that we store.&rdquo;</span></li>
 640
 641
 642   <li><a href="http://www.eutelsat.fr">Eutelsat</a><br/>
 643   <span class="desc">&ldquo;Eutelsat uses dygraphs for charting spacecraft
 644     telemetry for a fleet of 25 geostationary satellites. The spacecraft
 645     engineers are very happy with it.  All satellite combined are producing
 646     about 200 millions unique data points per day so we really appreciate the
 647     excellent performance of dygraphs.&rdquo;</span></li>
 648
 649   <li><a href="http://www.10gen.com/mongodb-monitoring-service">10gen MongoDB
 650     Monitoring Service</a><br/>
 651   <span class="desc">A free monitoring service for MongoDB from 10gen (the
 652     creators of MongoDB). Used by thousands of servers and users. Makes use of
 653     <a href="tests/synchronize.html">synchronized charts</a> to display many
 654     quantities simultaneously.</span></li>
 655
 656     <li><a href="http://toolserver.org/~dartar/moodbar/">Wikimedia Foundation - Moodbar data dashboard</a><br/>
 657     <span class="desc">dygraphs is used internally at Wikimedia as a handy solution to monitor the
 658     results of a bunch of small experiments.</span></li>
 659
 660   <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/quadrant-framework/">quadrant-framework</a> (MySQL Load Testing Framework)<br/>
 661   <span class="desc">A user friendly framework for creating and visualizing
 662     MySQL database load test jobs. For more information on its use of dygraphs,
 663     see <a href="http://themattreid.com/wordpress/2011/05/20/quadrant-framework-rev7-update-adds-dygraphs-support/">this post</a>.</span></li>
 664
 665   <li><a href="http://spinwave.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/spinwave-systems-enables-energy-efficiency-case-studies/">Spinwave Systems</a> (Home energy monitoring)<br/>
 666   <span class="desc">dygraphs is used to chart energy usage over time.</span></li>
 667
 668
 669     <li><a href="http://www.socib.es/jwebchart/?file=http://thredds.socib.es/thredds/dodsC/mooring/weather_station/mobims_calamillor-scb_met001/L1/dep0001_mobims-calamillor_scb-met001_L1_latest.nc">Jwebchart</a><br/>
 670     <span class="desc">
 671     jWebChart is a stand-alone and Thredds' embedded plotting system for
 672     netCDF files. NetCDF is a common standard for the storage and
 673     distribution of scientific data.
 674     </span></li>
 675
 676     <li><a href="http://ngrams.cavorite.com/">n-gramas - Explore las tendencias en los artículos periodísticos de Colombia.</a><br/>
 677
 678
 679     <span class="desc">(English: "Explore trends in newspaper articles of
 680     Colombia"). dygraphs is used for displaying the results of this n-grams
 681     viewer.  Uses an extension for exporting the plots as PNG images
 682     (<a href="http://cavorite.com/labs/js/dygraphs-export/">[1]</a>, <a href="https://github.com/cavorite/dygraphs">[2]</a>).
 683     </span></li>
 684
 685     </ul>
 686
 687     <p>Are you using dygraphs? Please let <a href="mailto:dan@dygraphs.com">Dan</a> know and he'll add your link here!</p>
 688
 689
 690     <h2 id="policy">Data Policy</h2>
 691     <p>dygraphs is purely client-side JavaScript. It does not send your data to any servers &ndash; the data is processed entirely in the client's browser.</p>
 692
 693     <p style="font-size:0.8em">Created May 9, 2008 by <a href=mailto:danvdk@gmail.com>Dan Vanderkam</a></p>
 694   </div>
 695
 696 </body>
 697 </html>