Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy―a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.

Highcharts is a popular type of web charting software that produces stunning and smooth animated HTML5 SVG graphs.

Joe Kuan continues the Learning Highcharts series, with the second edition comprising of brand new content and revised chapters. The book covers all the graphs supported in Highcharts 4. Step-by-step tutorials demonstrate how to create presentable charts with real-life data. The book also explores how to replicate industry charts from a financial brochure, sports article, 3D infographics, and even a Fiat 500 speedometer.

The second part of the book focuses on the operational side; APIs, events, and framework integration. The third part of the book looks into the server side and online services, how Highcharts/PhantomJS works, and demonstrates the usage and reviews the latest exciting development, Highcharts Cloud—an online chart service without any prior Highcharts or JavaScript experience needed. You just need to insert the data and it does the rest.

In a nutshell, this book aims to be the most comprehensive Highcharts book in the market.