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The website I'm building will have content in various languages. I'm looking for a nice way to present the "langages" data, for those interested.

I really like this visualisation : http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/lcci

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It is basically a series of sparklines, drawn at decreasing heights. I would use it, for instance, to display the overall number of posts in a language (→ height of the sparkline), and the evolution of this number (→ the sparkline itself).

Is there a chart drawing library that could do something like that ? I don't need it to be "clickable" / zoomable, a static image would be fine.

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Would the question better be suited for stackoverflow ? Feel free to move it if so. – Manu Mar 27 '12 at 10:54
Have you tried google charts? I think there is a way to create sparklines (see here: style.org/chartapi/sparklines) although I havent see it done in the exact way you require. Or you could try here: sparkline.org How about trying excel? chandoo.org/wp/2010/05/18/excel-sparklines-tutorial may be able to format it in a way that meets your needs? – Sheff Mar 27 '12 at 11:15
I looked at google charts a bit, I'm not sure they can do that chart or similar … It's basically two types of charts combined. – Manu Mar 27 '12 at 11:16
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It's more a programming problem but it's not quite specific enough to be a Stack Overflow question. Someone recommended processingjs.org and the Processing programming language which seem fairly well built for this. – Ben Brocka♦ Mar 27 '12 at 14:00
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@Manu It's not appropriate for Stack Overflow (I'm a moderator there) as it's NC there (it's a shopping list). However, I have to say, that graph is awesome. I'd suggest looking into Processing or Processing.js depending on your needs. – casperOne Mar 27 '12 at 14:10
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