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How to use Google Charts with React for dynamic data visualization

What's this blog post about?

Research from Matillon and IDG reveals that data volumes increase by 63 percent per month on average in an organization, making it crucial to have the right tools for examining such substantial amounts of data. Data visualization is key to deriving useful insights from this data, as it turns complex raw figures into meaningful visual representations. Google Charts is a free data visualization library provided by Google that offers a straightforward API, diverse chart options, customization capabilities, and interactivity. The React community has developed a "react-google-charts" library to streamline the integration of Google Charts into React applications. This tutorial provides an overview of how to get started using Google Charts with React, including setting up a basic React project using Vite, installing and importing Google Charts using react-google-charts, creating your first chart with Google Charts and React, customizing charts in Google Charts, dynamic data integration in React Google Charts, using APIs or live data sources with Google Charts in React, interactivity and event handling, and customizing tooltips.

Company
Ably

Date published
Sept. 6, 2023

Author(s)
Tooba Jamal

Word count
2423

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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