A Reporting Tool for Cool Data Visualization

FineReport
Sep 9, 2018 · 5 min read

In most people’s eyes, data visualization may be like this:

But in fact, it can also look like this:

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Looking at the cool visualization, some people will wonder if it is really useful. Actually, it has been widely used in commercial, production and operation scenarios, such as group exhibition center — used for government and customers to visit; urban traffic control center — traffic police operation monitoring; stock exchange hall — real-time stock trading situation. The boss’s office — BOSS dashboard. Among them, dynamic data maps and real-time data screens are more especially used.

How to achieve it?

The secret lies in this tool — FineReport.

(You can access the personal free version in the fineReport official website with a free activation code).

With its powerful data integration performance and mature visual components for more than 10 years, finereport can produce a variety of data visualization large screen.

About visualization

FineReport’s charts are self-developed HTML5 charts with more than 60 chart styles, excellent dynamic effects and a powerful interactive experience. When used, it can set various characteristics according to requirements, and on the mobile phone side, the LED large screen can also be adaptively displayed.

About some visualization effects

FineReport has special effects such as chart switching, auto refresh, and data highlighting. They are all installed in the form of a jar plugin. In addition, each year, FanRuan will develop a number of plug-ins according to the actual needs of customers. There are also a group of hobby developers who will use the visual open source library to design and develop plug-ins, which are specially customized for FineReport. At present, this ecology is very mature.

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The large screen of data is a visualization function derived from FineReport. Its advantages are as follows:

1. Easily integrate heterogeneous data sources for clearer decision making

Easily integrates data from different business systems such as ERP, OA, MES to the same visualization page, which breaks information islands and makes decision making clearer.

2. With various visual elements, a big feast for eyes

Provides dozens of visual elements such as forms, graphics, controls, web frames, pictures, videos, scrolling messages, digital clocks, etc., and customers can enjoy the big feast for eyes.

3. Free layout, which makes visual design more freehand

Supports adaptive layout, absolute layout, tab layout; zero-code drag-and-drop operation, which can freely DIY different visual elements on the interface.

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4. Background monitoring, real-time data

The background data is intelligently monitored and compared. The foreground will be updated in time when the data is changed, and the latest data is always available. Supports independent monitoring of individual elements.

5. A variety of visual effects, making data more interesting

Personalized features such as map thermal display, dynamic flow display, flash animation, custom fill, etc., bring more fun to your data visualization.

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6. Dynamic interaction, keenly capture data changes

Through multi-dimensional drilling, linkage analysis and other functions, customers can keenly discover the connection between data to help you better analyze and solve business problems.

7. Adaptively multi-screen display, analyze data anytime and anywhere

Supports adaptive display. Only design once, and you can adaptively display on a variety of devices such as mobile phones, tablets, splicing screens, etc. which helps you control corporate data anytime and anywhere.

Some doubts

1. What is the difference between a large screen and a general chart plugin such as Echarts?

Some people will say that it can be implemented with Echarts, and Echarts does provide a very rich chart. However, in actual application, what you have to develop is far more complicated than imagined. It involves data response, dynamic refresh, screen adaptation, and the problem of high data volume concurrency, and you have to design interface. Ordinary people will upset themselves from developing it. It’s better to use a ready-made tool (such as FineReport) to drag and drop the chart to achieve the effect.

2. What dynamic effects can the FineReport large screen does?

Multi-tab carousel, chart carousel, report block monitoring refresh, chart monitoring refresh, map monitoring refresh and dynamically pop-up data prompts, data point automatic carousel prompts, insert other GIF.

3. About real-time data access

FineReport can access data, but it is not completely real-time, but can be punctual. The current solution on the market is polling methods: periodically send requests to the server, and notify the foreground to respond when data changes are detected. Regular refresh intervals can be defined autonomously and can be accurate to the second.

4. How to achieve automatic scrolling of data as the figure shows?

It can be implemented through data monitoring, but the data should change in real time. You can also call the interface of the automatic carousel. This does not require real-time data, and any data can simulate automatic carousel.

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