Management Theory Website Using ZoomCharts Network Graph in Management Theory

ZoomCharts is a world leader in advanced data visualization software with good reason. ZoomCharts graphs can support a massive amount of data input, allowing you to display all your information in one handy chart without the need to flip between separate charts, and it does it all at an incredibly fast speed to provide a seamless user experience.

With ZoomCharts tools, mundane data presentation becomes not only much more efficient than in traditional methods, but also visually stimulating and interactive. Users can tailor their own experience by customizing the graph to look exactly the way they want, and by tweaking it to present only the data they need.

ZoomCharts tools are being used in myriad ways for educational purposes. One excellent example that reveals the truly wide range of ZoomCharts capabilities is in Russian management theory website MTAS’ use of a network graph.

MTAS is a Russian organization that caters to professionals in management theory and organizational systems, including scholars, teachers, graduate students, and students, and provides a place for them to exchange and share ideas. MTAS uses a ZoomCharts network graph to explore students who studied under the scientific school of VN Burkova over a 45-year range.

With ZoomCharts’ interactive network graphs, a variety of options are available to allow users to fully customize their experience:

1. Display all information in one chart. Legends help you distinguish between different data series.


2. Hide or show any combination of data with a simple click of your mouse.


3. Filter data using a handy slider.


4. Data nodes can be moved around with simple drag and drop using your mouse.


5. Zoom in and out of desired areas of the graph.


6. Hover over data nodes to display more information.


Check out ZoomCharts products:

Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.

Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.

Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.

Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.

ZoomCharts
http://www.zoomcharts.com
The world’s most interactive data visualization software

Southern Educational Leadership Trust Uses ZoomCharts' Network Graph for Education

ZoomCharts graphs let you turn ordinary data into a fun and interactive way to delve deeper into your subjects of interest. You can show or hide any combination of data sets of your choosing, rearrange data nodes to alter the look of your graph, and customize data nodes with unique descriptions. And you can do all of this with impeccable speed. As the world’s leading interactive data visualization software, ZoomCharts offers the most efficient tools, letting you alter and tweak information in your graphs with seamless transitions.

ZoomCharts network graphs are ideal for use in the educational sector, where access to easy-to-understand and well-presented information is key for learning. This is why UK-based Southern Educational Leadership Trust (SELT) called upon ZoomCharts to help present career path information on their website.

SELT is a charity that supports the development of leadership learning and career training in education and public services to help children and young people. Like many educational organizations, SELT saw the correlation in presenting information through visual and interactive means with student engagement and learning. They used ZoomCharts advanced data visualization software to let users explore a vast array of potential career paths by choosing a category and seeing all of the relevant programs within that category.

With ZoomCharts’ interactive network graphs, users are open to a variety of options that let them fully customize their experience:

1. Clicking on a data node expands information.


2. Several expanded data sets can be viewed all in one graph.


3. Data nodes can be moved around with simple drag and drop using your mouse.


4. Expanded information you do not wish to view can be hidden by clicking on a data node again.


Check out ZoomCharts products:

Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.

Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.

Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.

Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.

ZoomCharts
http://www.zoomcharts.com
The world’s most interactive data visualization software

JavaScript focused XXVII DevClub.lv Event Photos

DevClub.lv attendees at the Microsoft Latvia office take a break from the presentations to enjoy snacks and drinks, and to mingle, chat, and network with other members of the Latvian IT community.


DevClub.lv hosts discuss the JavaScript-focused agenda and the three presenters for the night at the highly attended event on January 15, 2015, as an intrigued group of Latvian IT community members listen in.


Members of the Latvian IT community really enjoyed themselves, taking the time to get to know each other while snacking on cookies and drinks in the lobby of the Microsoft office in Latvia at the very successful DevClub.lv event on January 15, 2015.


A photo of Rīga sits at the back of the room at the highly successful DevClub.lv event on January 15th, 2015, which took place at the Microsoft office in the Latvian capital.


ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CTO Viesturs Zariņš begins his PowerPoint slideshow by introducing ZoomCharts as the world’s most interactive data visualization software, while audience members listen intently to his presentation.


ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CTO Viesturs Zariņš continues his presentation by delving deeper into the vast capabilities of ZoomCharts software. Here, he explores the functionalities of an interactive pie chart while an engaged audience of local IT community members watch on.


Viesturs Zariņš, with an MSC in Computer Science, is also the Co-Founder and CTO of ZoomCharts, which offers the world’s most interactive data visualization software. One of the speakers at DevClub.lv, Zariņš begins his presentation by introducing ZoomCharts, and goes on to discuss the realities of developing a JavaScript SDK.

On January 15th, 2015, an event was held at the Microsoft office in Latvia by DevClub.lv, a community of Latvian information technology (IT) specialists that gather monthly to host free talks and presentations so that locals can share their knowledge, network, and communicate on everything IT-related.

Check out ZoomCharts products:

Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.

Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.

Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.

Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.

ZoomCharts
http://www.zoomcharts.com
The world’s most interactive data visualization software

Developing a JavaScript SDK (Full Presentation)

On January 15, 2015, ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CTO Viesturs Zariņš presented at DevClub.lv - a community of Latvian IT specialists that gather monthly and host free talks, presentations, and events to allow the local IT community to share knowledge, network, and communicate. Zariņš discussed the unique challenges faced in developing JavaScript SDK.

Here is a brief overview of his PowerPoint presentation on ZoomCharts, the world’s most interactive data visualization software that will support all your data presentation needs with incredible speed.

What is ZoomCharts?

What defines ZoomCharts advanced data visualization software? It is NOT another HTML5 charts library. It is:

- Interactive
- Fast

- Touch enabled - Supports big data

A long time ago

DOS 6.2 allowed for:

- 320x240x8bpp
- Direct access to pixels on screen
- Assembler for performance

Today, the Web has finally caught up in the graphics department. Now, we have access to:

- Multiple browsers and rendering technologies
- Multiple resolutions
- Performance that varies by browser and device

Development setup:

- We write in JavaScript
- Commit to GitHub
- Build system in JavaScript
- Debug in Chrome
- Run automated tests
- Like WebStorm (and Vim)

Graphics:

Canvas (fast)
SVG (slow)
WebGL (>50%)

Interactive animations:

Zoom in and out of the graph, drag and drop data, all with your mouse or trackpad.

Graceful degradation:

High FPS (frames per second) lets you scale graphics with low image degradation.

Third party libraries:

- Raphael
- Hammer.js
- Leaflet
- Moment.js

Challenges:

- Responsive design: layouts can shift and look nice on desktop screens vs. not so nice on vertical, mobile screens
- Big screen resolutions: uses devicePixelRatio for sharp rendering, but no hardware acceleration beyond 2048x2048
- Safari compatibility: with 100% CPU, input events are blocked and browser locks up; strange code offers fixes
- HTML on canvas: DOM is slow; basic HTML markup must be parsed and rendered manually; text caching helps

Support:

- Process: Trial - Support - Buy
- 1 day issue resolution
- #1 Tell me what I did wrong
- #2 Can you do...

Testing:

- Automated tests on every GIT push

Automatically:

- Compare images
- Record performance
- View errors in console
Interactive testing:

- Next step: record and playback

BrowserStack:
- Interactive mode
- Automated: Selenium API

Debugging:

Chrome Developer tools (F12)

- Debugging
- Profiling
- Timeline

Remote debugging available: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging

Future:

- More charts
- Extension API
- Memory allocation tracking
- WebGL

We are looking for statically-typed language:

- Error checking
- Performance
- Superior minification

- Easy to write and read
- Easy to call from JS

Building

Custom build script:

- Compile
- Minify
- Extract documentation
- Embed customer data

Check out ZoomCharts products:

Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.

Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.

Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.

Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.

ZoomCharts
http://www.zoomcharts.com
The world’s most interactive data visualization software