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Omar Urbano
Omar Urbano

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Announcing LightningChart JS 8.3: sunburst charts, multithreading, new dashboards

What is LightningChart JS?

LightningChart JS is a data visualization library for building high-end JavaScript charting applications in complex scenarios that demand high-performance data processing.

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Introducing the Sunburst Chart

LightningChart JS introduces the sunburst chart, used for displaying hierarchical data as a series of aligned rings. LightningChart JS now makes it easier to explore part-to-whole relationships simultaneously across multiple levels.

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Multithreading Performance Optimizations

Just when you thought that LightningChart JS could not get any faster, version 8.3 introduces Multi-threading Performance Optimizations as a built-in functionality to make your charts even snappier.

By using multi-threading, we were able to load an absolutely massive data visualization with 40 channels and 10 million data points each in just above 1 second. And you can zoom in/out/reload data without any lag.

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JS Drill-Down Nord Pool Map Dashboard

Introducing the JavaScript Drill-Down Nord Pool Map Dashboard, which visualizes day-ahead market data from the Nord Pool energy exchange. It provides a geographic overview of the next day’s planned power generation across the Nordic-Baltic region.

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Sunburst Chart Dashboard

Introducing the Sunburst chart dashboard, which combines a regional map with embedded sparkline-style charts, a sortable summary table with status indicators, a dual-axis chart pairing stacked columns with an overlaid line series on a shared time axis, and a row of toggle chips for filtering.

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Other Improvements

LightningChart JS 8.3 comes with several more improvements, including:

  • Built-in axis zebra stripes
  • Out-of-the-box text color contrast improvements
  • Built-in chart opacity filter
  • Rectangle series histogram usability improvements

To see the full list of changes and improvements, visit the changelog, or read the official release note.


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