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Re: Variance

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Can you elaborate on what you are referring to and why you think it’s a problem? The chart looks quite nice to me. http://imgur.com/Po8lelr

The labels in the axis are misplaced in IE11. They look right in Chrome. http://imgur.com/oLHPoYy

Thanks, gus. We're working on some fixes for IE as we speak.

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I noticed this uses AngularJS under the hood. How would it play in an existing AngularJS app - can we install it as a module? Also, how would one do stacked bar charts?

We haven't exposed it on the site yet, but if you have an existing Angular.js app then you can import Variance as an Angular module for a cost of about 34kB. Email variancecharts@generalreactives.com and we can get you squared away.

Very cool. Are you concerned at all about Angular 2.0 and potentially having to rewrite major parts?

Re: Variance

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Is it just me or does naming a plotting lib after a common prob/stat concept seem like a bad idea. Makes it a bit of a pain to search for information about.

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This reminds me a lot of Vega ( https://github.com/trifacta/vega ), albeit using a HTML/CSS approach as opposed to a JSON one. By default, I'm excited for new ways to approach data visualization, since its a really exciting topic with no clear winners. I was worried about the hefty price tag until I realized that it was free for non-commercial projects. Will definitely try and play around with it this weekend, as I i…

Variance, like Vega, draws a ton from Wilkinson's "Grammar of Graphics". In particular I wanted something like Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 R library, but on the web. I toyed with the idea of an explicit data format that could be generated by different tools (I talked about this at the 2012 Clojure/conj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyGggdg31mc ). Conceptually that route is cleaner. However, the reality is that any suc…

Could you comment on how easily one very familiar with Wilkinson's work and Hadley's ggplot2 might pick up this tool and produce useful visualization? How similar is the syntax? How does it compare to R's Shiny applications? Is it possible, for example, to update part of a visualization only rather than redraw the whole thing?

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Edit: parent posted "Pricing starts at $499... ouch :("

I made this comment below as well but it seems applicable here: > The pricing and licensing model seems right on. As a consultant, this is the cost of a couple of billable hours. I wouldn't hesitate to use it for a client project where they needed these kinds of graphs. https://variancecharts.com/examples/

If you need this kind of thing and are being paid to do it then this is small potatoes to most consultancy/software development companies. $500 is a lot to come out of your pocket but negligible to your employer. And it's free for non-commercial use.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We haven't exposed it on the site yet, but if you have an existing Angular.js app then you can import Variance as an Angular module for a cost of about 34kB. Email variancecharts@generalreactives.com and we can get you squared away.

Very cool. Are you concerned at all about Angular 2.0 and potentially having to rewrite major parts?

Variance is currently built on Angular, but that's not part of the public API contract. It's very likely that at a future point we will whip up a faster/leaner DOM compiler and drop 100kB of Angular features that Variance does not need.

Re: Variance

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First graph on the landing page has no x-axis :(

Can you elaborate on what you are referring to and why you think it’s a problem? The chart looks quite nice to me. http://imgur.com/Po8lelr

Hmm, yes looks fine on my MacBook. On my iPad (1st gen) with Mobile Safari 5 the x-axis with the years is missing.
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