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Open source HTML5 visualisation library to draw charts on the web (morris.js)

At work(ongoing,full-time contract) we use the Google Visualizaton  library for our various data visualisation needs. So naturally when I was building this tool to streamline the process of Post Traumatic Amnesia(PTA) assessment, my first thought was to use Google Visualization library for the tool's data visualisation needs. However that was only till I realised that the tool needs to work offline. Google Visualisation is a very good library but it only works when the the web app is online, so after some looking around I found a tool that works offline too i.e. morris.js . It uses the fantastic Raphael.js  library to render beautiful SVG based charts, on the web. Problem The objective is to visualise data in a web application, so it can be easily interpreted without having to go through raw numbers. The web application needs to be demoed on....say a laptop and the places where it could potentially be demoed may not have internet connectivity. It could also be in a plac...