Top tools for Data Visualisation in web development : a performance first approach

Abstract

The purpose of this final year project was to deliver a visualisation based solution for the game analytics company, Game Refinery. The company’s platform presents a handful of reviews for games based on features with an additional chart that shows the rank of games in stores. Due to the slowness of the charts on the platform, multiple types of performance testing mechanisms were implemented to optimize the charts and the ways the system runs them.

The focal point of the thesis is testing the performance of different charting libraries based on their user friendliness, features, functionalities, customisability, architecture, scalability, compatibility and performance. The project also put emphasis on performance optimization in web development and proper implementation of data visualization in web applications.