This looks good.
It's the nearest thing I've seen to an implementation of lattice/ggplot2-style graphing (from R) for Javascript.
Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
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Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#42I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow. With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performa…
Seriously... I was just reading the examples and thinking to myself "why would I use this over vanilla D3"? The syntax isn't more concise and offers less control, and introduces a whole new api to learn. To me this is like writing a DOM manipulation framework on top of jQuery...
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#43I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow. With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performa…
Surely if it's a bug that affects everyone then file an issue? If there's a bug in a library then that doesn't invalidate the entire concept of 'simple charting libraries'. How many have you tried? d3 is robust because it's great code that's widely used - not because of it's other design choices.
> d3 is robust because it's great code that's widely used - not because of it's other design choices.
I disagree very much. On top of the facts you mentioned, the main reason why d3 works where others don't is because it doesn't abstract away as much from the end user. Leaky abstractions will always, always come back and bite you in the you-know-where.
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#44I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow. With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performa…
Surely if it's a bug that affects everyone then file an issue? If there's a bug in a library then that doesn't invalidate the entire concept of 'simple charting libraries'. How many have you tried? d3 is robust because it's great code that's widely used - not because of it's other design choices.
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Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#45This is definitely the best charting library I've worked with so far, mostly because of its flexibility. However, being afraid that I'm not aware of some other, maybe more powerful, libraries out there, I'm asking here are there good alternatives? Also, there were some rumors lately regarding the layoffs in Palantir, which makes me worry about the future of the project.
We use Plot.ly ( https://plot.ly/javascript/ ), which is also built on top of D3.js It has been around for a long while, has superb connectors to many different languages (we mostly interact with it from Python), and has been recently open-sourced. Free, but they also provide hosting for your charts for a very modest fee. Highly recommended.
Unless this has changed, you need the $9,950/year plan to serve it "behind your own firewall". I.e. otherwise plots on done on their systems by uploading data.
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#46I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow. With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performa…
Surely if it's a bug that affects everyone then file an issue? If there's a bug in a library then that doesn't invalidate the entire concept of 'simple charting libraries'. How many have you tried? d3 is robust because it's great code that's widely used - not because of it's other design choices.
Either that or it's widely used because it's robust and well designed.
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#47I’d like to see more tools and tutorials for generating charts on the server-side, so that the amount of JavaScript is kept at a minimum. You just can’t afford to run hundreds of KB of JavaScript in the browser anymore… unless it runs in a worker, I guess, but I haven’t seen tutorials on that either.
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#48It has been over a decade since I did any legitimate work in JavaScript. If I wanted to use this to make some pretty data displays, do I really need to install an ecosystem (npm, node, grunt, bower, more?) instead of just pointing a script tag to something.js?
Wait another year, and you’ll be able to just import the custom element, e.g. and configure it declaratively via content attributes :).
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#49I really dislike these simple charting libraries, because I always have some kind of issue that just wastes my time in the end. For example with plottable, there is a hover event function that is extremely expensive that will trigger for every pixel movement with your mouse. With just a few hundred datapoints every chart we rendered ran horribly slow. With D3.js you have instead full flexibility and the only performa…
Seriously... I was just reading the examples and thinking to myself "why would I use this over vanilla D3"? The syntax isn't more concise and offers less control, and introduces a whole new api to learn. To me this is like writing a DOM manipulation framework on top of jQuery...
I'm not great at web stuff. I usually just do numerical work. For people like me, there's a ton of overhead knowledge to effectively using D3.
Re: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
#50Hmm, seems similar to http://nvd3.org/, which is also built from D3.