Plotting tools for dashboard

Question

After browsing for a while for available solutions, it is really hard to choose the most appropriate tool for creating dashboard & populating it with plots. I would want to have an html page with multiple plots and tables depicted. I'm thinking to have data input stored in csv files, appropriately formatted.

The requirements are:

• plot coordinates are showing on mouse hover
• ability to show coordinates of points on a plotted line (points in scatter plot or bar values for bar chart) 'sticking' to the nearest lines on hover, with appropriate handling of multiple lines (show several y values for same x)
• ability to interactively switch plotted data on/off
• easily embeddable into html page, doesn't require additional plugins installed
• a good variety of plot types
• not too slow to load and stable, there could be ~50 plots on one page (this is for internal use only, so quickness is not that important)
• does it all with minimal effort

So far I checked out (by no means a final opinion, correct me if I'm wrong):

• gnuplot+canvas - looks good, but samples on their page fail to work well for me, not always getting mouse clicks right

• python+matplotlib+mplh5canvas - feels a bit raw, as I understand some of the stuff above I'd need to implement in Python myself

• RGraph looks awesome at first glance, not sure if it is good since never heard of it and don't have any experience in js, hard to customize(?)

• some other random stuff which seemed bad enough

Suggestions?

Answer 1

I end up using Highcharts because of its very advance features and ready-to-use templates (in addition to the things mentioned in the question).