Have you ever wished you could draw a picture of the data you manage with VFP? While an excellent data manipulator, VFP provides little in the way of tools for generating graphical representations of data. A relatively new web standard known as Scalable Vector Graphics format is about to change all that. SVG is an XML-based language for describing two dimensional graphics. The excellent native text handling capabilities Visual FoxPro offers position it well to take advantage of this emerging standard. Lauren will give a brief tutorial in SVG and then demonstrate some examples of how VFP can dynamically generate SVG to provide visualization aids for complex data sets and processes.

One Thousand Data Points are Worth a Picture: Using VFP and SVG to Visualize Data