Hiding _groups_ of series in Highcharts and jQuery: how to get acceptable performance?

Question

I\'m using Highcharts to represent groups of time series. So, data points collected from the same individual are connected by lines, and data points from individuals that be

Answer 1

Rather than calling show() or hide() for each series, call setVisible(/* TRUE OR FALSE HERE */, false);. This second parameter is the redraw parameter, and you can avoid causing a redraw (which is slow) for each series.

Then, after you're done changing visibilities, call chart.redraw() once.

http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#Series.setVisible