# Extension for Chart / Graph data?
**URL:** https://discuss.jsonapi.org/t/extension-for-chart-graph-data/408
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 28, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/t/extension-for-chart-graph-data/408 "2016-03-28T20:15:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@toobulkeh](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/u/toobulkeh)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/t/extension-for-chart-graph-data/408/1 "2016-03-28T20:15:47Z")
I haven’t been able to find any discussion or extensions around charting / graphing data – so I’m assuming there isn’t a useful specification on this format in place already.
Has anyone else found anything? Has this been discussed under some other name?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@A-Helberg](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/u/A-Helberg)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/t/extension-for-chart-graph-data/408/2 "2016-03-29T05:41:59Z")
Hi @toobulkeh
What do you mean with “charting / graphing” data? Do you want do draw charts and graphs on your frontend, such as a pie chart and bar graph, or do you want to represent a graph data structure using jsonapi?
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### Author:  [@toobulkeh](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/u/toobulkeh)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/t/extension-for-chart-graph-data/408/3 "2016-03-29T13:21:43Z")
Yup, draw charts on the front end. I believe the core of my question is about the efficiency of an ORM type API – and if anyone had run into issues of performance for queries needed for visual charting.
We aggregate a lot of raw data on our backend and can process that into any format that’s consumable by a d3 or highcharts type library – I just couldn’t find any previous work with a JSONapi extension for this use case. We’ll be fine defining it ourselves, but was just looking to see if a shortcut existed.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@A-Helberg](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/u/A-Helberg)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.jsonapi.org/t/extension-for-chart-graph-data/408/4 "2016-03-29T18:50:18Z")
Unfortunately I don’t know of any shortcuts that exist, but if you do define it yourself, please post what you came up with and why you made the decicions 🙂 it will definitely help the community!