A nice java library called opencsv allows you to import the csv file content and make charts out of it.
Let´s consider for example unemployment in Germany since the reunification. We will use a csv file containing year, amount of people in germany, west and east (four columns)
1991,2602203,1596457,1005745
1992,2978570,1699273,1279297
1993,3419141,2149465,1269676
1994,3698057,2426276,1271781
1995,3611921,2427083,1184838
1996,3965064,2646442,1318622
1997,4384456,2870021,1514435
1998,4280630,2751535,1529095
1999,4100499,2604720,1495779
2000,3889695,2380987,1508707
2001,3852564,2320500,1532064
2002,4061345,2498392,1562953
2003,4376795,2753181,1623614
2004,4381281,2782759,1598522
2005,4860909,3246755,1614154
2006,4487305,3007158,1480146
2007,3760586,2475528,1285058
2008,3258954,2138778,1120175
2009,3414992,2314215,1100777
2010,3238965,2227473,1011492
2011,2976488,2026545,949943
2012,2897126,1999918,897209
2013,2950338,2080342,869995
2014,2898388,2074553,823835
2015,2794664,2020503,774162
2016,2690975,1978672,712303
We can represent it with an index chart by using just JavaFX and the opencsv library:
package de.datascience.charts; import java.io.FileReader; import com.opencsv.CSVReader; import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.chart.CategoryAxis; import javafx.scene.chart.LineChart; import javafx.scene.chart.NumberAxis; import javafx.scene.chart.ScatterChart; import javafx.scene.chart.XYChart; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class UnemploymentGermany extends Application { @Override public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception { stage.setTitle("Index Chart Sample"); final NumberAxis yAxis = new NumberAxis(0, 5000000, 1); final CategoryAxis xAxis = new CategoryAxis(); final LineChart<String, Number> lineChart = new LineChart<>(xAxis, yAxis); yAxis.setLabel("People without job"); xAxis.setLabel("year"); lineChart.setTitle("Unemployment in Germnay"); XYChart.Series series = new XYChart.Series(); XYChart.Series seriesWest = new XYChart.Series(); XYChart.Series seriesEast = new XYChart.Series(); series.setName("Germany"); seriesWest.setName("West Germany"); seriesEast.setName("East Germany"); try (CSVReader dataReader = new CSVReader(new FileReader("docs/unemployment_germany.csv"))) { String[] nextLine; while ((nextLine = dataReader.readNext()) != null) { String year = String.valueOf(nextLine[0]); int population = Integer.parseInt(nextLine[1]); series.getData().add(new XYChart.Data(year, population)); int populationWest = Integer.parseInt(nextLine[2]); ; seriesWest.getData().add(new XYChart.Data(year, populationWest)); int populationEast = Integer.parseInt(nextLine[3]); seriesEast.getData().add(new XYChart.Data(year, populationEast)); } } lineChart.getData().addAll(series, seriesWest, seriesEast); Scene scene = new Scene(lineChart, 500, 400); stage.setScene(scene); stage.show(); } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } }
The output will be the following: