PatternFly Charts

Data visualizations are fascinating. When well executed, they are an amazing medium to visually represent massive volumes of dynamic information.

But of course that’s not easy. From a simple pie chart to a complex infographic, they each offer complicated design challenges.

As part of the effort to promote common dashboards, the PatternFly team will cut a release this week that includes PatternFly styles for C3js charts, and Aerogear Unified Push Server UI will probably be the first to implement them.

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, what’s the value of an image representing a terabyte of data?

Hunter Whitney asked in this excellent article.

##PatternFly charts

For this first release, patternfly charts will include:

• Line Chart
• Sparkline
• Spline Chart
• Area Chart
• Stacked Area Chart
• Bar Chart
• Stacked Bar Chart
• Donut Chart

But there are plans to expand this list with heat maps and other charts soon.

C3js + PatternFly styles

They are based on the robust and tested C3.js, which is a D3-based reusable chart library.

Patternfly charts are superbly designed to keep consistency with the rest of the library styles. They are optimised for good readability, their colors are color-blind tested and they show animations which supports the interactions and hierarchies.

##PatternFly at DevNation

As I mention before, I’ll be at the PatternFly booth at DevNation. If you happen to be around, let’s geek out about charts!