TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library • Hacker News Board

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by hughes » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 3:30 PM UTC

What's most astonishing about all this is that the AMC Rebel gets 0mpg!

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by taucharts » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

etpinard wrote: post #27

So, if I get this right, being 'data-friendly' sums up to using data in the form [ {val1: 1, val2: 2}, {val1: 2, val2: 3}] and then mapping x: 'val1', y: 'val2' instead of something like {x: [1,2], y: [2,3]}. The former assumes that the input data comes in a csv or a similar format. This makes charting computed data (à la MATLAB or numpy/matplotlib) rather awkward.

You've got it right. Also I have an idea to make an API that joins data processing and plotting like tauCharts.data(#).aggregate(#).plot(#)

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by taucharts » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 3:40 PM UTC

hughes wrote: post #31

What's most astonishing about all this is that the AMC Rebel gets 0mpg!

I'm happy you noticed that :) Obviously this is a corrupted row in a data so you can try "exclude" feature of tooltip plugin to remove this record from the chart in one click

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#34

Post by amk_ » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 4:21 PM UTC

caractacus wrote: post #10

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?

D3 has an importer for tabular data, and looks like Taucharts uses D3 under the hood.

That said, it would be cool if there was some kind of composer interface that would allow you to point-at/paste/import data, then save the visualization as a single page HTML snippet - like a small Tiddlywiki for data.

- https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/CSV - http://tiddlywiki.com/

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#35

Post by __float » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 4:39 PM UTC

This is a rather minor nitpick, but I think the documentation and TauCharts website as a whole could use some editing by a native English speaker.

That said, the content and goals for the project really are quite cool! I'm looking forward to where TauCharts can go in the future.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by pc86 » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

__float wrote: post #35

This is a rather minor nitpick, but I think the documentation and TauCharts website as a whole could use some editing by a native English speaker. That said, the content and goals for the project really are quite cool! I'm looking forward to where TauCharts can go in the future.

If your goal is to express ideas and get someone to contribute/download/convert, I don't think that's a minor nitpick at all. It was pretty painful to read certain parts.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

#37

Post by infinite8s » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

I wonder how this compares to VarianceCharts - https://variancecharts.com/ (besides the license). They both claim to get inspiration from the grammar of graphics.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by taucharts » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 6:31 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #36

__float wrote: post #35

This is a rather minor nitpick, but I think the documentation and TauCharts website as a whole could use some editing by a native English speaker. That said, the content and goals for the project really are quite cool! I'm looking forward to where TauCharts can go in the future.

If your goal is to express ideas and get someone to contribute/download/convert, I don't think that's a minor nitpick at all. It was pretty painful to read certain parts.

Really sad to hear that :/ but you right. Will improve documentation for sure

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by honzzz » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 5:52 AM UTC

tablet wrote: post #7

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.

Great, I see that you already fixed it, thank you - I can add "provider solving problems quickly" to my personal list of reasons to use the app.

Re: TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

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Post by taucharts » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 8:24 AM UTC

infinite8s wrote: post #37

I wonder how this compares to VarianceCharts - https://variancecharts.com/ (besides the license). They both claim to get inspiration from the grammar of graphics.

As far as I understand from quick review the projects are quite similar. But variancecharts don't have facets and not free for commercial use. Difference in API doesn't matter. Taucharts can be wrapped to webcomponent and described on the page using tag as well.