Data Visualization

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web APIs on top of the .NET Framework. In this blog post we will show how to create a web service that returns a list of products and how to consume it and display the returned objects with the ShieldUI Grid widget.
The complete code for this example can be downloaded from here.

This article contains some useful information on the QR Code - a data visualization tool with an emerging importance in today's web.

The increasing numbers of products and changes in reporting frequency are just some of the challenges one faces when preparing financial reports. Most large investment banks suffer from over reliance on end-user developed spreadsheets. Controlling the growth of this spreadsheet jungle is a challenge from a data security, disaster recovery and operational risk point of view. If Finance requirements are being met thorough these local solutions rather than requests for online systems, then IT role as an enabler for financial reporting is questionable.

Good data visualization is all about choosing the right presentation techniques. While any plotting layout would do the basic job of visualizing the data, there are many rules, which can help us present a powerful layout, which is easy to understand and goes well beyond just presenting a set of data. Below we will present some of them using the Shield UI's Chart widget for HTML5 and JavaScript.