TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by infinite8s » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 12:21 AM UTC

TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library
blog.taucharts.com

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by baldeagle » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 4:08 AM UTC

What makes it better than Vega? I like how straight forward it is, much like highcharts. I'll explore it more tomorrow.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by hliyan » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 5:43 AM UTC

I like this. A 20 second glance at the JavaScript in the first example was all it took for me understand how this works.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by honzzz » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:28 AM UTC

My first impression could not be better - it seems to be simple to use and it looks good. BTW, when you click on the Facebook button at the bottom of the page, the sharing box is under that disqus box - you might want to fiddle with z-index or something.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by honzzz » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:42 AM UTC

At the http://taucharts.com it says "Free open source D3.js-based library" but in the tutorial at http://api.taucharts.com/tutorials/5min.html it says "free for non-commercial use". At GitHub it is sporting Apache License, Version 2.0 which - if I am not mistaken - allows commercial use. Could you please clear that up for me? Am I allowed to use it in commercial products (like a website made for one of my clients) or not? Thanks.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by awjr » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:59 AM UTC

I still find charting tools that do not allow interaction with the a group of charts to enable further filtering very lacking. The gold standard I evaluate any charting library against is http://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

My reasoning is that most dashboards should be designed to enable data to tell a story and enable users to interact and create their own story.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by tablet » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 8:31 AM UTC

honzzz wrote: post #5

At the http://taucharts.com it says "Free open source D3.js-based library" but in the tutorial at http://api.taucharts.com/tutorials/5min.html it says "free for non-commercial use". At GitHub it is sporting Apache License, Version 2.0 which - if I am not mistaken - allows commercial use. Could you please clear that up for me? Am I allowed to use it in commercial products (like a website made for one of my clients) or…

It is free for commercial use, the site will be fixed, it is a mistake in the 5min page.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by vladminsky » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 8:45 AM UTC

awjr wrote: post #6

I still find charting tools that do not allow interaction with the a group of charts to enable further filtering very lacking. The gold standard I evaluate any charting library against is http://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ My reasoning is that most dashboards should be designed to enable data to tell a story and enable users to interact and create their own story.

As a taucharts developer, I would give you a "best comment" award :) Actually taucharts is moving to this direction. We want to simplify API for dashboards and composite charts to allow users create "visual stories". Stay tuned :)

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by taucharts » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 9:09 AM UTC

baldeagle wrote: post #2

What makes it better than Vega? I like how straight forward it is, much like highcharts. I'll explore it more tomorrow.

Actually I personally like the concept of Vega but in my humble opinion the protocol is too academic, implementation goes too slowly so I doubt that Vega suits for real world application.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by caractacus » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 10:51 AM UTC

What I want with such charting solutions is something to export or copy and paste data from excel and put it into a chart. Just that. No need to manually edit a javascript file or html code beyond customising the appearance once the data is in there. Is this available somewhere?