Google Charts and real time updates
charts, google-visualization, javascript
Solution
I do not know about google charts, but recently I discovered Smoothie Charts. It can do real-time(smooth). The only problem is that I does only work in Chrome, Firefox according to this Introducing Smoothie Charts post.
Or maybe highCharts. A real-time example at jsfiddle.
Problem
I'm thinking of using the google charts api, in particular column charts and scatter plots. I want to know that can these charts be updated constantly by data it receives from the server via a websocket. My understanding is that this data will first be added to a data table and then plotted onto a chart. So if data is being updated in the table will this update the chart in 'real time'. Another question is I'll also have an instance when the columns cannot be defined straight away but again will be updated by the received data; again can google charts handle this. Thanks