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Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

#81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HighCharts is great, but it is prohibitively expensive for a startup to use in their product.

It's 90$ for a single web page that's not considered a web application, which has a dubious definition "A web application is a website that has customer specific data or charges for its use."

Most tech startups probably aren't going to meet that definition. It looks like a 1-developer license for a typical SaaS offering is going to run you $390. Five developers is $1500.

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

#82
Very nicely done! I am just about to choose a charting library and this will be a great help.

Have you considered adding some sort of user rating system? I find myself kind of just wanting to know which one is most popular or highest rated (i.e. take some of the work out of choosing between 30+ libraries myself).

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

#84

FusionCharts would be a good one to add. But then you will have to add like 40 more graph types as well http://www.fusioncharts.com/charts/

+1 Here are some business dashboards examples from FusionCharts:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/dashboards/

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

#85

Very nicely done! I am just about to choose a charting library and this will be a great help. Have you considered adding some sort of user rating system? I find myself kind of just wanting to know which one is most popular or highest rated (i.e. take some of the work out of choosing between 30+ libraries myself).

IMO rating would be a difficult thing to do as there are many factors[1] to consider. What best for one use case, might be the worst choice for another. A more qualitative comparison would be more useful:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/javascript-charting-comparison/

[1] http://davidwalsh.name/13-factors-choosing-javascript-charti...

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

#86
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You might want to rephrase it to "Graph drawing" because there is the graph data structure and I thought that this link was about graphs. It might be just me but I can imagine people getting confused by the title.

As someone who works in that field, to me "graph drawing" relates even more to drawing and arranging mathematical graphs of nodes and edges (called networks on that site); the conference on that is called Graph Drawing, too. It's also a frequent confusion of potential customers who ask us whether our library handles line and bar "graphs" ...

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

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This should really include http://ecomfe.github.io/echarts/index-en.html

Baidu huh. Those plots looks really slick. IE6+ support is quite the accomplishment.

I agree with you. But why do you think IE6+ support is an accomplishment? Both FusionCharts and HighCharts also support IE 6+

Re: Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

#89
It would be fantastic if this comparison included average render times for graphs of various dimensions and number of data points, and/or maximum number of data points that can maintain a render time faster than 1/60s. Especially on Firefox for Linux, which doesn't have Direct2D available.
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