Google Charts renders charts in HTML5/SVG to provide cross-browser compatibility and cross-platform portability to iPhones and Android. It also includes VML for supporting older IE versions.

Who needs Microsoft's pricey Visio software? With Lovely Charts, you can whip up, well, lovely charts without spending a dime.

The topic of images vs. HTML for displaying chart data came up during a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout with John Mueller.

Bar charts are too frequently used to communicate data that they cannot represent well. We strongly encourage the use of more appropriate plots to display statistical samples.