Art Data makes it easier than ever to visualize data on a Joomla 3.x web page. Art Data allows you to create 2 types of tables and 12 types of charts. Custom templates can be created to control the look of your tables and charts. Quickly populate a table or chart using our built in dataset spreadsheet or you can load a dataset from SQL Query, HTML or CSV file. Add multiple visualizations on the same page to create cool, custom dashboards without knowing any code!
Data visualizations are defined as "the creation and study of the visual representation of data, meaning 'information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information'".
The 'visualizations' view is where you will configure your chart or table's basic options such as 'What type of visualization is this going to be? Table or Chart?', 'What type of Table or Chart?,' 'What template would you like to use with this visualization?', 'What dataset would you like to use to populate the visualization?'. You get the picture. The visualization is what ties everything together.
Tables
Charts
The 'templates' view is where you can customize nearly everything about the way a table or chart looks including color palette, responsive width %, class modifiers, text alignment, padding, border and more. Art Data allows you to customize pretty much everything about the look of the data visualization. Templates you create can be added to a visualization to easily apply a certain style.
You don't need to have any CSS knowledge whatsoever to use our template builder to style a table or chart template.
Tables
Charts
The 'data' view is where you can create a dataset by entering your data into a web spreadsheet application that is built right into Art Data. The data view was specifically created for the purpose of easy data population because not everyone knows how to write an SQL Query. Create datasets specifically for tables or if you're using a chart then you can select either single series data or multiple series data. Formatting data for populating a visualization has never been easier.
Art Data consists of a component, module, and plugin so you can deploy a table or chart on your site in whatever way you prefer.
Component
The component administrator is for creating and managing your visualizations. One way to deploy a visualization on the front end is to create a new menu item of type 'Art Data Visualization'. This will use the component output to display your table or chart and using this method the visualization will be the main part of the webpage.
Plugin
Another way to deploy a visualization is to use the content plugin. Using this method you can write [artdata id="1"] using the shortcode provided for you in the component administrator and you can put this shortcode anywhere on your site and it will be transformed into a visualization.
Module
The last way to deploy a visualization is to use the module. Simply create a new module instance and select the visualization you'd like to display from the module administrator area, select a template position where you'd like the table or chart to show up and you're done. Three great ways to deploy an Art Data Visualization on your Joomla 3.x site.
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