{"id":2071,"date":"2014-03-03T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:21:42","slug":"build-free-quick-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/build-free-quick-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to build quick and free charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"apples-oranges_chartbuilder\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in July 2013, the guys from released their Chartbuilder tool to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

Quartz<\/a>\u00a0is a very successful online magazine. For their charting needs they use Chartbuilder, a web tool they built to streamline their cumbersome Excel-based process and convert it to a three step copy+paste, copy+paste, publish workflow.<\/p>\n

Author David Yanofksy:<\/p>\n

() frustrated by the amount of my own time it was taking to produce even the simplest charts in our style, I set out to make a tool that would allow me to support the charting needs of the newsroom without consuming all of my time. It quickly turned into an application for the entire newsroom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in July 2013 they released the tool to the rest of us.\u00a0Chartbuilder can be downloaded and installed<\/a> in your machine, but you can also use their hosted version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Back in July 2013, the guys from released their Chartbuilder tool to the rest of the world. Quartz\u00a0is a very successful online magazine. For their charting needs they use Chartbuilder, a web tool they built to streamline their cumbersome Excel-based process and convert it to a three step copy+paste, copy+paste, publish workflow. Author David Yanofksy:… Continue reading How to build quick and free charts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[198,197],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projectmanagement-en","tag-charts","tag-visualization","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2082,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/amcharts-a-charting-library-for-creating-interactive-web-charts\/","url_meta":{"origin":2071,"position":0},"title":"amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"19\/05\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"amCharts is a new JavaScript library for creating charts on the web. 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