Chartboxes

iCharts has an interesting concept called Chartbox. The idea is that you can package several charts into one and scroll thru. You can achieve the same by having the same charts in mnay PPT slides. But that is not an effective way to scroll through data.

Try it. www.ichartsbusiness.com
click on iCharts in action.

This feature is available in our advanced package and is extremely useful for executives.

Here is another example of a chartbox
http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=475

City Lab - Car Theft

Citylab.us has a number of interesting tables created as part of their research. But putting them in a graph gives a different perspective.

For example, see this graph created in iCharts on Car Thefts by city.

Charts in Calculated Risk Blog

Here are some charts reproduced from Calculated Risk Blog, using iCharts service.

Charts from Hotel News

Here are some charts from the Hotel News reports publicly available on their web site.

Technically, one can publish only one chart with all three value and the user can choose which one to see.

The best thing is that anyone can easily embed the charts or save as a picture. Of course, this can be restricted or even better, monetized.

An iChart showing CPI Change YoY.

You can select All items, just food or both.

You can shrink timeline to see only selected years.

You can view the exact data points.

You can embed in your blog, ppt or pdf.

Sample Charts from BLS

The Bureau of Labor Statistics houses massive amounts of data. All of them available on their web site for free. Using iCharts, we were able to create charts out of these data in no time.

Here is snap shot of the data available at BLS.

We simply saved the data as CSV file and upload to iCharts where we created the chart below. The beauty is that every time I change the chart, the chart below will always reflect the updated version.

Go ahead .....play around with the chart.

Introducing iCharts

iCharts is a TechCrunch 50 company that launched last September 08. iChart’s business is to provide an easy way to publish and proliferate data on the web packaged in the form of attractive interactive charts. Our online service allows anyone to easily create online, interactive charts, package them, embed them, download them for use in PDF / PPT (staying interactive). Our ChartAnalytics can track where and how often iCharts have been viewed. YTD our nascent services have collected 1M ChartViews.

Examples of iCharts in action include:
- National Venture Capital Association - with reembeds of their charts in New York Times and TechCrunch

- TechCrunch Layoff Tracker

- German Publishers Association

- Bloggers (Paul Kedrosky) using iCharts
- A sample ChartBox with IAB data: http://demo.ichartsbusiness.com/adreport/

- A sample ChartBox with Key US Indicator Data: http://www.ichartsbusiness.com/dashboard.html