# Managing and presenting large amounts of up-to-date data...?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-and-presenting-large-amounts-of-up-to-date-data/171837>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 9, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-and-presenting-large-amounts-of-up-to-date-data/171837 "2009-07-09T22:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![dezrtdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@dezrtdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dezrtdude)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-and-presenting-large-amounts-of-up-to-date-data/171837/1 "2009-07-09T22:57:28Z")

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Hi All,

I’m in the midst of a Rails application that produces line,bar, and  
pie charts for constantly accumulated data. That said, I’m looking  
for some quality ways in which to deal with presenting the large  
amounts of data while keeping the graphs accurate and up to date.  
Obviously the simple answer is to build and run a new query each and  
every time a chart is accessed. However, my gut tells me that there  
are frameworks/libraries, etc. that can manage this – perhaps in the  
background. Any thoughts?

For the record, I am using XMLSWF charts ([http://www.maani.us/](http://www.maani.us/)  
xml\_charts/).

Best.

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**Author:** ![dezrtdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@dezrtdude](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dezrtdude)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/managing-and-presenting-large-amounts-of-up-to-date-data/171837/2 "2009-07-10T01:56:48Z")

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For what it’s worth, I am presenting tabular data in an ajaxian manner  
using settimer and json, gethering the data and putting it out with  
innerhtml. I think you could do the same with graphical data. I’ll  
gladly send you the javascript I have for doint this if you want. -  
Janna B