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Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
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Re: Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
#12I'd love it plotly.js could work Medium for integration. Medium still doesn't have way to do rich, interactive charts. It makes me sad...
As an off-topic data visualization tip, I strongly recommend against using Medium for writing about data visualization. Medium's compression murders the quality of high-res charts.
Re: Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
#13The Github pages reads: "Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. plotly.js ships with 20 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps." -- https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js
It feels a bit heavy in comparision to Highcharts or the open source Flotcharts. Though some chart types are pretty impressive, same can be said for d3.js in general.
But thanks for releasing plotly.js as open source.
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#14I've looked into plot.ly and found the feature set pretty impressive, although I was not happy with the way they handled data. Now that it's open sourced, I'll definitely try to make use of it in practical data visualization applications. That being said, I'm not 100% sold on interactive charts. Way too many libraries (Highcharts especially) break or function poorly on mobile devices, which is a serious problem in 20…
It really is too bad that it's such a problem. Have you considered rasterizing the graphs and only displaying that version on mobile?
Re: Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
#15I'd love it plotly.js could work Medium for integration. Medium still doesn't have way to do rich, interactive charts. It makes me sad...
As an off-topic data visualization tip, I strongly recommend against using Medium for writing about data visualization. Medium's compression murders the quality of high-res charts.
Medium's lack of embeddable visualizer is frustrating. But getting interactive charts to play nicely and responsively on desktop/tablet/mobile is immensely painful. I did it manually once but it merely adequate on phones.
I just want to have my cake and eat it. Is that really so much to ask?
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#16Very cool! Love the inclusion of SVG and not just canvas, I'm personally very invested in that format so it's nice to see the tech being pushed forward.
...most chart libs use SVG. Beside Highcharts (not open source) I have yet to see a SVG based charting lib that is fast and lightweight. d3.js and chart libs based on d3.js (like plot.ly) are very heavy weigth in comparision (= more than 100KB minified JS code; plot.ly is 1.05MB huge: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/dist/plotly.... )
SVG wasn't supported until Android 4 and only Internet Explorer/Edge is really optimized for SVG (thanks to their VML investment). On the other hand Chrome, Safari and Firefox render Canvas much faster. (only relevant if you want to render thousends of objects on a battery powered device)
Re: Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
#17Awesomely feature packed! And thus a bit beefy at ~1MB minified, but I guess that is the tradeoff.
A modular design would be great. Every chart type could be a seperate plugin / npm module.
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#18Very cool! Love the inclusion of SVG and not just canvas, I'm personally very invested in that format so it's nice to see the tech being pushed forward.
...most chart libs use SVG. Beside Highcharts (not open source) I have yet to see a SVG based charting lib that is fast and lightweight. d3.js and chart libs based on d3.js (like plot.ly) are very heavy weigth in comparision (= more than 100KB minified JS code; plot.ly is 1.05MB huge: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/dist/plotly.... ) SVG wasn't supported until Android 4 and only Internet Explorer/Edge…
Also, canvas support can be turned off. We have clients who have the latest version of Chrome, however they run on VMs and the system admins have canvas turned off (no gpu rendering at all). Out of our control...
Re: Plotly.js Open-Source Announcement
#19How well does plot.ly do with plain old equation plotting? In particular, I'm looking for something that can produce mobile friendly plots that scales diagrams automatically to show relevant features (x, y intercepts, inflection points, etc) for simple function families - y= mx + b, ax^2 + bx + c, etc.
Any suggestions on available libraries, or am I better to start from scratch on this?
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#20I wonder where this is going and if python+numpy+scipy+matplotlib will one day be replaced by tools written in javascript.