I have been helping develop some client account tools for our main site www.GlassObelisk.com.au and I came across this really excellent set of Flash charting tools.

What is perhaps even more exciting for me, is that there is a Drupal module already released that will allow you to easily include Open Flash Charts in your site. It even supports the yet-to-be-released Drupal 6 (which our new site is using). Very good stuff.

Now the set of available charts and graphs is very impressive. There’s: Data Lines, Bar Charts, 3D Bar Charts, Glass Bar Charts, Fade Bar Charts, Sketch Bars, Area Charts, Bars + Lines, Pie Charts, Scatter Charts, Mixed Scatters, High Low Chars, Close Candle Charts and more. Now that’s a lot of charts.

Now what are we going to use it for? Well for showing account data in a nice visual manner. The number of SMS messages sent over the last month broken down into days, the number of hits on their websites - anything like that. There really is such a huge number of possibilities.

I hope you get as big a kick out of the Open Flash Charts as I do. Lots of kudos goes to John Glazebrook who came up with it all. Good work there.

If you have any suggestions for one of the myriad ways that we could use these graphs and charts, why not post it in the comments?