A curated list of chart and dataviz resources that developers may find useful. Focused on relevant and currently active JavaScript charting libraries for different use cases. Ordered alphabetically in each category.

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Table of Contents

• Commercial Libraries
• Free and Open Source Libraries
• Free Libraries
• Framework-Specific Libraries
• Data Visualization Resources

Commercial Libraries

• amCharts - Three libraries for traditional charts, stock, and maps. Features a hand-drawn style theme option.
• AnyChart - Set of products for charting different types of data. Has a special Oracle Apex integration option.
• CanvasJS - A tight set of chart types in a library with a small file size. Different looking default theme than other commercial libraries.
• FusionCharts - Charting library with a strong maps component.
• Highcharts - A series of charting libraries for a variety of uses. Can be compatible back to IE6.
• ZingChart - Built to render large data sets other libraries can't handle. Super customizable styling and new features added often. Everything in one modular library.

Free and Open Source Libraries

• C3.js - D3 based reusable chart library.
• Chart.js - Tiny library (11kb!) including core chart types.
• Chartist - Simple, lightweight chart library that uses SVG to render the chart, and CSS to style it.
• Chartkick - JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby.
• d2b.js - Reusable chart library, using D3 v4+ and including support for axis, pie, sankey, sunburst charts and more.
• D3.js - Allows the user to manipulate documents based on data to render charts in SVG.
• dc.js - D3 Library with crossfilter support
• dygraphs - Interactive zoomable time series charts.
• ECharts - A powerful charting and visualization library for browser.
• EJSChart - enterprise ready charting library.
• Graphosaurus - 3D graph viewer powered by WebGL (three.js)
• Morris.js - Simple API to render line, bar, area, and donut charts
• Plotly - Built on top of d3 and stack.gl, allowing users to create basic charts and SVG maps.
• Plottable - Library with OOP style syntax to build charts.
• rgraph - 2D/3D javascript charts with google sheets import capabilites.
• sigma.js - Graphs / Network diagram library built with canvas.
• Smoothie Charts - JavaScript charts for realtime streaming data.
• TauCharts - Unique syntax that lets the developer describe the data using DSL. Has the ability to create facets.
• uvCharts - JavaScript Charting library built using d3.js
• vis.js - Network diagrams, descriptive timelines with labels, and has 3D graphs.

Free Libraries

• Google Charts - Maps are dialed in (of course) and some cool animation options. Extensive docs and use community (forum).

Framework-Specific Libraries

Angular

• Angular-Chart- Simple API to render line, bar, area, and donut charts
• n3-charts - Easy to use library written with AngularJS, rendering charts with D3.
• Angular-scale - Simple and lightweight library for creating line charts

Ember

• Ember Charts - Five basic chart types ready to go in Ember.js projects.

jQuery

• Flot - A JavaScript charting library for jQuery. Contains useful chart types but looks like it may no longer be in active development.
• jqPlot - Open source jQuery plugin for drawing charts. Contains many commonly used features but may use different naming conventions for these items.
• jqxChart - Plenty of chart types rendering in SVG, Canvas, and VML.
• JQuery-linechart - Simple and lightweight library for creating line charts

React

• Formiddable - A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
• react-d3 - Charting library that relies on React for generating SVG markup and d3 to calculate path values.
• react-vis - A collection of React components to render common data visualization charts
• recharts - Redefined chart library built with React and D3

Data Visualization Resources

• Dataviz Catalogue - A place to go when you're wondering which chart type is best. A project by Severino Ribecca.
• Evergreen Data - Information and opinions on presenting data more effectively.
• Flowing Data - A resource on maps, visualizations, stats, and design by Nathan Yau, formerly of the New York Times.
• Junk Charts - Dataviz critic (and Columbia professor) Kaiser Fung breaks down data visualizations to identify what is wrong and recommends ways to make them better.
• The Functional Art - Noted data visualization author and professor Aberto Cairo's blog on dataviz trends and best practices.
• Visualizing Data - Dataviz consultant Andy Kirk compiles examples, resources, and reference materials on the subject of charting and visualization.
• Well Formed Data - Thought pieces on information visualization and design by Moritz Stefaner previously of the World Economic Forum.