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At New Relic, we use HighCharts (http://highcharts.com/). We constantly get questions from our customers about which library we use, because they like the way they look and function. Highly recommended.

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I second highcharts, i find it an absolutely excellent chart library. I even created a PHP wrapper for it so i could control it from the backend.

Oh and I did this because i was bored: http://zestmonkey.com/charts.php

Is that lib. available? I was nearly going to write one, but I would rather not start from scratch.

+1 for High Charts. We're using these for some of our newer, light-weight charting options at PatientsLikeMe.

Great bang for the buck as your go-to first charting solution until you need something custom.

That's a great library but I'll have to pay u$s360 if I want to use it. In my country it'll be ~u$s1300.

If you're only developing one application, I believe you can just buy the $80 license. That's amazingly inexpensive for such a stellar piece of software.

The $80 license says: "For use on a website that does not have customer specific data or charges for its use."

Showing a username is customer specific data I suppose, so I think most applications show customer specific data. Am I misunderstanding this limitation?

+1 for Highcharts. We use it at MyEdu, switched away from Fusioncharts. I've had to write some workarounds for the occasional bug, but the maintainer is incredibly responsive to feedback, so drop a comment on GitHub or the Highslide forum if you run into an issue.

I chose to use Highcharts at Perpetually about nine months ago, I must say I am very pleased with how they have developed the library in that time. It has proven flexible enough to handle extremely varied data visualizations. Highly recommended.

We use it as well. No problems to date. Its pretty great.

also in use at Mixpanel.

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