{"id":1227,"date":"2014-05-09T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2017-05-23T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:24:51","slug":"new-spline-charts-for-iot-data-visualizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2014\/05\/09\/new-spline-charts-for-iot-data-visualizations\/","title":{"rendered":"New Spline Charts for IoT Data Visualizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once your data gets into ThingSpeak, you than want to do something with it. A first step is to see the data. If the data are sensor values from a Nest thermostat for example, then you want to see it as a chart. We added a new way to visualize your data by adding Spline Charts! Spline Charts are super easy to create with ThingSpeak, just add &#8220;type=spline&#8221; to your <a title=\"ThingSpeak Charts API\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/thingspeak\/channels-and-charts-api.html\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak Chart API<\/a> call. (And of course, once you have it as a chart, you may want to embed it on our <a title=\"ioBridge Dashboard\" title=\"https:\/\/www.iobridge.com\/interface (link no longer works)\" target=\"_blank\">ioBridge Dashboard<\/a> application.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the new <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/9\/charts\/1?height=240&amp;width=600&amp;results=10&amp;dynamic=true&amp;type=spline\">Spline Chart<\/a> looks like:<br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>  \nwindow.onload = document.write(\"<iframe width='600' height='240' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' scrolling='auto' frameborder='0'  src='https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/9\/charts\/1?height=240&amp;width=600&amp;results=10&amp;dynamic=true&amp;type=spline' ><\/iframe> \"); \n <\/script><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a regular <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/9\/charts\/1?height=240&amp;width=600&amp;results=10&amp;dynamic=true&amp;type=line\">line chart<\/a>:<br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>  \nwindow.onload = document.write(\"<iframe width='600' height='240' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' scrolling='auto' frameborder='0'  src='https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/9\/charts\/1?height=240&amp;width=600&amp;results=10&amp;dynamic=true&amp;type=line' ><\/iframe> \"); \n <\/script><br \/>\nAnd just as a reminder, here are all of the supported ThingSpeak Chart types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>type=bar<\/li>\n<li>type=column<\/li>\n<li>type=line<\/li>\n<li>type=spline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For complete ThingSpeak Charts documentation, check out\u00a0<a title=\"ThingSpeak Charts Documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/thingspeak\/channels-and-charts-api.html\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once your data gets into ThingSpeak, you than want to do something with it. A first step is to see the data. If the data are sensor values from a Nest thermostat for example, then you want to see it&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2014\/05\/09\/new-spline-charts-for-iot-data-visualizations\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30,17,183,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}