I know of a number of papers like "De Volkskrant" and-alike that have used the highcharts tool or library to visualize data in their website. I never really looked into this library so I thought I would spend an hour or two just to get a better understanding of it. Firstly, I (wrongly) assumed this was more of a drag-and-drop tool. Based on very limited research in the past I was under the impression Highcharts provided a way to visualize data without coding, but more by "dragging in a dataset" that then would be somehow turned into a graph. I knew it wouldn't be THAT easy, but in concept I thought that was Highcharts would do. I quickly learned in the last hour or so this is not the case. Secondly, although Highcharts seems to make it somewhat easier to embed a graph into a webpage than starting from scratch, it still requires coding and as such it requires learning how to write "highcharts-code", figuring out how things are called in Highcharts, how they are manipulated, etc. Basically I will need to learn the Highcharts language before being able to use this efficiently Now it could very well be that this is a lot easier to learn then say D3, but I am glad I found this out before getting into this too deep and after I finished my #knightD3 course (as I now have a far better understanding of html, css, a little js and D3, so Highcharts at least makes sense to me). It does appear to me after this quick review that Highcharts could be easier to learn than D3, as it pre-packages a number of tasks. Of course the downside is that there will be less flexibility than a library like D3 where you pretty much control everything, as long as you code it. Now I am defenitely not saying this library isn't any good. But I had a different perception of what it did and am glad I quickly learned this is not the case. And as I am still in the early stages of learning D3 I am going to focus on that and leave Highcharts for what I now know it is. RJ