Highcharts is an open source, client side JavaScript library for making interactive charts, viewable in nearly any modern web browser. Since it is a client side library, it requires no special server side software or settings — you can use it without even downloading anything!

This tutorial just try to explain a little bit what can be found in the official documentation and try to introduce this library to Python users.

The website for Highcharts is located at http://www.highcharts.com/. To begin, we need to download a copy of Highcharts (or, we can directly link to the library — this is what we will do in the present tutorial). You can download the compressed library as a .zip file.

So, before continuing let's load the Highcharts library.