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TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#11

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?

https://plot.ly/

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#12

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?

We are working on such a solution http://vizydrop.com/

Actually it uses Taucharts under the hood.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#13

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?

We are working on such a solution http://vizydrop.com/ Actually it uses Taucharts under the hood.

Cool. Look forward to hearing more.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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post #11

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?

https://plot.ly/

Some of our biologists use plot.ly. They seem to like it.

Those that know it still are using ggplot2 and R. This grammar of graphics plotting library really seems to gold standard of plotting.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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post #14

Any plans for spider chart? Geo charts?

Basic Geo charts are already there, but not documented so far.

In future we are going to support all type of visualizations from Grammar of Graphic, so it includes spider chart as well. In fact it is Polar Parallel chart and it will be possible to create it when support of polar coordinates will be added.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#17
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 #4

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.

Thanks for positive feedback. FB button is already fixed

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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post #19

Please don't use the combination of red and green as early option for category colors. Many people have color vision problems and that combinations is very problematic for them.

Thanks for notice, we will think about that. Actually chart API allows to configure color brewer and I hope we will have several themes soon.
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