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Nick Pettit
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Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Posted by Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Forum Contest: Build an Interactive Chart

EDIT: This contest has ended! The next contest is about designing a rebrand.

Hi everybody,

It's time for a new Treehouse Forum contest! First, watch this video to learn more:

After you've watched the video, please read the details below carefully. I'm looking forward to your entries!

How to Enter:

Post a link to a working demo of your project as an answer to this forum post. You can host your project anywhere you'd like, as long as it's easy to see your work.

Due Date: All entries must be submitted by Sunday, October 19th at 11:45pm ET. Here's a timezone chart so you can see what time that is for your locale.

Prize: The entries will be judged by Treehouse teachers based on design and originality. One winner will receive a free month of Treehouse on us! :) We'll announce the winner on Monday, October 20th and reveal the next contest.

Michael Liquori
Michael Liquori
8,131 Points
Michael Liquori
Michael Liquori
8,131 Points

Mike Rogers Wow the highcharts license is very pricey though, Shiny and Google APIs are open-source but not as pretty. I would love to hear of some other options for making commercially-used charts and chloropleth maps!

3 Answers

Michael Liquori
Michael Liquori
8,131 Points
Michael Liquori
Michael Liquori
8,131 Points

I made this one: https://mliq.shinyapps.io/HealthMap/ . Does that count? Unfortunately, it looks a bit better on IE than other browsers, and Google Charts API through Shiny is not as customizable as I'd like, so I'm looking forward to learning about any better solutions you all may know about. Any streamlined ways of taking data from an excel/CSV file to a chart?

Mike Rogers that highmaps looks pretty good, thanks, reading the docs now.

Katarzyna Walsh
Katarzyna Walsh
24,409 Points
Katarzyna Walsh
Katarzyna Walsh
24,409 Points

Here is my entry: http://codepen.io/KasiaWalsh/pen/yjHhl?editors=110 No Java Script skills yet but I had fun working with CSS. A few things to to be worked on.

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Michael Liquori and Katarzyna Walsh,

Thanks so much for participating in this week's contest! You both did great and it seems silly to pick one winner between just two awesome entires, so I'm going to make an exception and say you both won. :) I'll send an individual email to each of you shortly.

The next contest is about designing a rebrand.