ChrisGerrard
Registered: 11/23/06
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I'm happy to announce that The Bullet Grapherator is ready for public exposure.
An Open Source project creating Bullet Graphs in PNG, JPEG, and SVG formats, it's online at: http://kenai.com/projects/bulletgrapherator.
See GettingStarted for instructions on how to get it. (The zip file is a bit too big for attaching here, I think)
In its current form there's a Designer within which you can configure your Bullet Graphs to a reasonable degree, with much more configuration flexibility in store. Once designed, individual Bullet Graphs can be stored as templates, which can then be loaded and supplied with the variable business data to be displayed. There's no well-defined boundary as to what this will be, but it's a good bet that it'll include the upper and lower limits, the performance value, the comparison value, and less frequently the qualitative ranges. All of these can be provided programmatically when rendering updated BGs with new data for inclusion in your dashboards.
The Grapherator started as a way to automate the creation of SVG Bullet Graphs. As things got more involved incorporating PNG and JPEG format generation seemed only right.
The Grapherator is written in Java, and so is most naturally used in Java environments. Which means that it can be slotted into Java-based web apps pretty easily, although there's work to be done to expose the programmatic API better - it's still pretty ad hoc.
My hope is that The Grapherator will prove to be useful, and that there will be enough interest in it to make it worthwhile to continue to working on it.
So, please take a look and let me know what you think.
Be kind, but honest.
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