light weight, quick and interactive. Ease of use.

As a university student working on data visualization projects, I found Highcharts to be a really useful library for creating interactive charts. It’s easy to set up with basic JavaScript knowledge, and the documentation is thorough with lots of examples. I especially liked how customizable the charts are—you can adjust almost everything from colors to tooltips, which makes the visualizations look professional. For my coursework, I used it to create a dashboard that displayed survey results, and the interactivity (like hovering over data points and filtering series) really impressed my classmates. Compared to manually coding charts with just HTML/CSS, Highcharts saved me a lot of time.

This is one of the few charting libraries that has gone above and beyond to make the charting experience a real delight to use with assistive technologies (ie it’s very accessible)