Flot With “String” x-axis

Question

When using flot I would like to have a string based x-axis. For example I have a list of customers \"Bob\", \"Chris\", \"Joe\" and would like to plot their revenue on the Y-

Answer 1

The Categories plugin (jquery.flot.categories.js) will do this quite nicely, so that data can be formatted like this:

var data = [ ["January", 10], ["February", 8], ["March", 4], ["April", 13], ["May", 17], ["June", 9] ];

and plot like this:

See: http://www.flotcharts.org/flot/examples/categories/index.html