Animate the creation of a graph with SVG is for fun, of course, but so is a dashboard. Animation is not “necessary”.
I use an SVG (non-animated) in my homemade web dashboard, which I now want to replace with Dashboard Studio. For example: I want to display the Stedin e-klok in the dashboard using an api, but Quickchart can’t manage this kind of graph combined with number of data points. I ended up creating the chart below with SVG.
Animated SVG:
